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Communion

With Rev. Becca Stevens, Thistle Farms and the Sisters of Magdalene, Mpho Tutu, Marcus and Levi Hummons Travelling light means we travel together, bearing one another's burdens and joys, and...
Speaker(s): Psalm Drummers, Becca Stevens, Thistle Farms (and the Sisters of Magdalene), Mpho Tutu, Marcus Hummon, Levi Hummon, Matt Beckingham

Travelling Light: The Isenheim Altarpiece And Its Influences On Contemporary Art

Focusing on Grünewald's masterpiece, Tina considers the artist's vision as a form of travelling light, a beam of inspiration which travels through time and continues to shine a strange light on...
Speaker(s): Tina Beattie

Why Can’t My Dog Take Communion?

After studying environmental ethics, Ruth wrote her debut novel, Enemy of the Earth. Exploring the surprising parallels between environmental activism and Christianity, it mines her faith journeys...
Speaker(s): Ruth Ruderham

Gods Behaving Badly

From Britney and Brangelina to Tiger Woods and Michael Jackson, western society is obsessed with the idols and gods of the red carpet. Can our fixation on and devotion to celebrity culture itself be...

Trying to Name the Elephant in the Room: The theological challenge of race and difference in postcolonial British Christianity

We cannot talk about Christianity in Britain without engaging with the broader framework of empire, colonialism and racism. This talk addresses the often submerged and unspoken reality of...

Kicking the darkness- writing as a mystic

In the beginning was darkness, chaos, the void,; nothing a good cup of coffee couldn't fix, then. Mike contemplates the dark art of creative writing, explaining why therapy might be more expensive...

HighCrossesHarrowingCrucifixes

The cross of Christ has been painted, sculpted and hewn over the years into a symbol of both suffering and glory. An illustrated exploration of its portrayal and our response. David Thomson is...

33rd Greenbelt Communion

One night in Egypt, an apprehensive people gathered to eat a hasty meal of lamb, bitter herbs and unleavened bread. With their coats on and their posessions bundled on their backs, they waited for...

Seeger, Springsteen, & hymns in rock & protest

Bruce Springsteen revived the civil rights songs of Pete Seeger, many of which happened to be old Baptist hymns. Stocki explores the significance. Steve Stockman is a bestselling author, songwriter,...

Towards the practice of freedom

What can we learn in retrospect from the transatlantic slave trade? Here, we take a broadbrush, interactive tour through black theology and focus on the different ways in which Christians have made...

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....

All Consuming

It is difficult to find lives that are balanced in a world of consumerism. But together we can start to fix the problem if we discover a more compelling version of the good life than the one we are...