Religious or Spiritual? None of the above
The Christian landscape is marked by a debate between whether Christianity is better described as a religion or as a type of spirituality. These terms mean different things to different people, but...
Power in the People
Few of us realise how powerful we can be in changing public policy and accelerating the end of extreme poverty. In this session the director of Christian Aid describes the changing face of poverty...
Speaker(s): Loretta MinghellaThe Dalit Struggle for Liberation and Humanity
Some 300 million people worldwide suffer from caste discrimination, the majority in India, the former “untouchables”. They have the most menial tasks in their societies and are treated as lesser...
Speaker(s): David Haslam, Garth HewittDon’t Bank on It (Panel)
In the church of high finance, the high priests spout their own language and remain an authority beyond question. While our investments can go down as well as up, their bonuses hold steady. They are...
Speaker(s): Loretta MinghellaWarnings and Wisdom
Eternal Joy: The playground of God’s love
Reaching the Summit
Globalisation post September 11th
The author of Grace and Mortgage will speak about the events of September 11th 2001 have affected his view of the nature of globalisation and the prospects for humanising a world driven by money...
What’s that hanging out your arts?
Can you have faith and be an artist without trying to sell something? Mike addresses the relationship between our imagination and our convictions. (yes, he's had a few). Warning: may contain...
What Race? – 2
From a diversity of ethnic groups there is one race - The Human Race. A two part seminar exploring the complex issues around race, discrimination and diversity. Bev Thomas has worked for the last 20...
From Mission Hall to Mosque –
In 1977, Ibrahim Hewitt played to the Queen in her Silver Jubilee. In 2002, he was a guest at her Golden Jubilee in acknowledgement of his work as a leading British Muslim. So how did a...
How do children cope with death & greavement
We used to opt out of facing children's distress by saying 'children are resilient' but we realise now that children's grief is as profound and idiosyncratic as adult grief. Sister Frances draws on...
The Wounds Of Gaza
Surgeon Swee Ang returned to Gaza in early 2009, and was overwhelmed with the devastation she experienced. Her article on what she found there – The Wounds Of Gaza – proved hugely controversial....
Buy Bye Childhood
Has the commercialisation of childhood won? To advertisers children are anything from small, absorbent consumer capitalists, to fulcrums of parent pester-power, and receptacles of prematurely adult...
With a crunch and a crash
Is consumerism on its corporate knees and does it matter? Is the recession just the shock we need to remind ourselves what really matters... or is that a bit theoretical if you've just lost your...