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Let’s get High! Psychedelics and God

Once cast out, psychedelics are returning as treatments for depression, addiction, and PTSD, with research expanding to other health conditions, including Alzheimer's. Participants in research trials...
Speaker(s): Sughra Ahmed, Hunt Priest, Ros Watts, Guy Hayward

Vanessa Nakate In Conversation

Vanessa Nakate is a climate activist, Christian, Unicef goodwill ambassador and author. She speaks to Chine McDonald about how faith can sustain action for climate justice.
Speaker(s): Vanessa Nakate, Christian Aid, Chine McDonald

The War in Ukraine

From the initial shock and panic, to the present and potential future, join us for an insightful conversation about the fallout from the war in Ukraine. With award-winning Guardian foreign...
Speaker(s): Pickwell Foundation, Luke Harding

God as… Uncontrolling Love

Many people are confused, deconstructing, or walking away from God. The reasons for departure are often linked to particular views of God. Many are told God allows evil, is uninvolved, is partial to...
Speaker(s): Thomas Jay Oord

Feed Your Beasts

Twenty years after reparative therapies and exorcisms to cure him of gay devils, Pádraig Ó Tuama began exploring these experiences through poetry. Pádraig will share poems and stories that feed...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó Tuama

Surviving the Middle-Class Church

Sharon Jagger and Alex Fry share stories from their research into the experiences of working-class clergy (and, by extension, their congregation members) in the Church of England. In light of their...
Speaker(s): Trussell, Anna Alls, Dr Sharon Jagger, Dr Alex Fry

Trans Evangelical, Really

Historian, evangelical and trans woman Rebecca Jane Morgan unpacks the history of evangelical transphobia and argues that the raw material is there for a genuinely loving evangelical response to the...
Speaker(s): Rebecca Jane Morgan

Banking On It

Around 1 million people in the UK don't have a bank account. Join the JustMoney Movement as they share how communities are organising to meet this need, what the role of credit union is, and what...
Speaker(s): Trussell, JustMoney Movement, The Pentecostal Credit Union (PCU)

Communion: Dreaming of Home

If you were forced to flee your home, what would you take with you? Photographs for memories? Documents for identity? Food for sustenance? Almost certainly you would carry with you the hope of a...
Speaker(s): Festival Communion, Daoud Nassar

All Talks 2024

The complete set of all the talks recorded at Greenbelt 2024.

URC: LGBT+ Christians are more than welcome to come as you are

Lead photo: Revd Dr John Bradbury speaks to the Open Table community in Cambridge in 2019. A minister of the church where Open Table Cambridge began, he became the General Secretary of the URC later...

James Pendle Poet

I perform poetic monologues in which a character wrestles with an issue that may be environmental, political, psychological or religious. Many of the poems draw on ideas from the Bible (I have a...

Matt Levett

I'm a singer-songwriter, my music is a blend of alt-folk melodies, spoken word passages and rap flows that I use to share stories of hope and faith - just me and my guitar! The music I would play is...

Johnny Panic & the Bible of Dreams

I'm Jimmy Andrex, a poet and musician aka Johnny Panic & the Bible of Dreams. I make poetry you can dance to. I regularly feature on BBC 6 Music, Resonance FM and BBC Introducing's regional...

Melissa James

Best current British blues singer I know. – The words of BBC 6 Music's Tom Robinson who has long given a nod of approval to the work of this singer-songwriter. Melissa James is, however, much more...