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Worldwide Woken Spurred

We're international baby! Not content with showcasing the UK's finest wordsmiths on site, World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker now brings the best poets IN THE WORLD to the best audience in the...
Speaker(s): Harry Baker, Lyndsay Rush

Unthinking the West – Mission Beyond Empire

Christian theologies of mission are still entrenched in Eurocentricism. The need for 'unthinking the West' from our mission thinking is paramount in the current context of Empire. This initiative...

Enough is Enough

Ian Christie has a simple idea for campaign called ‘Enough is Enough' – for shared wealth for a safer future. The affluent West has enough; the rich have more than enough; we've had enough...
Speaker(s): Ian Christie

Boundaries, Beliefs and Belonging

Members of the Iona Community have engaged in a year-long conversation about the boundaries of belief, about what it means to belong in a Christian community, and about the place of doubt and...
Speaker(s): Iona Community, Ruth Harvey

How Animals Heal Us

Celebrated author Jay Griffiths talks provides the evidence for what pet-owners and animal-lovers instinctively know: animals heal. But can they guide us in creating societies that are healthier,...
Speaker(s): Jay Griffiths

Waking the Women

With humour, radical honesty and prophetic storytelling, Radio 4 Thought for the Day-er Jayne Manfredi offers a rallying cry for women to wake up to the potential of menopause and midlife as a time...
Speaker(s): Jayne Manfredi, Becky Hall

What’s Got Into You?

What is in the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe? The health of person and planet are inextricably linked; join ecological doctor Jenny Goodman to ask how can we un-poison both?
Speaker(s): Jenny Goodman

A New Generation’s Search

Hear what author and journalist Lamorna Ash discovered as she talked to 20-somethings across the UK wrestling with Christianity. From Oxford Circus to Iona, it became a surprisingly personal journey.
Speaker(s): Lamorna Ash, Azariah France Williams

Potholes and Pavements

Q&A with Laura Laker, author of Potholes and Pavements, a Bumpy Ride on Britain's National Cycle Network. Laura asks, what if we had a Network that genuinely gave us the choice not to drive for every...
Speaker(s): Laura Laker, Dave Walker

Your Rest Is Your Resistance

What if impactful activism didn't mean running ourselves dry? What if gentleness with ourselves was the real foundation for revolution? Explore the joys of deeply sustainable activism in this...
Speaker(s): Jo Musker-Sherwood

Joining The Blue Dots

Prof Joanne Preston, leader of the Seascape Restoration Lab, links our relationship with the seas to human wellbeing and reaching our global biodiversity and climate goals. And she'll outline just...
Speaker(s): Joanne Preston

Voices of the Earth

Pairing hard data with Talanoa storytelling and ritual, Brazilian theologian Paulo Ueti will draw on the spiritual wisdom traditions of Indigenous peoples to chart concrete paths to meaningful...
Speaker(s): Jocabed Solano

Elephants and Porky Pies

Where has honesty gone in this Orwellian era when “Truth Social” means the precise opposite? Pilate's question, “What is truth?” is as relevant now as then. Jesus had a right to remain...
Speaker(s): John Bell

Sacred Earth. Sacred Soul.

Drawing on the vision offered by the Celtic wisdom tradition, the Scottish author John Philip Newell calls us to return to true relationship with Earth and the depths of the human soul as our place...
Speaker(s): John Philip Newell

The Heartbeat of God

Celtic author John Philip Newell and his wife Ali Newell will lead us in a spiritual practice and simple ritual inspired by Celtic wisdom and its reverence for Earth, the human body, and the true...
Speaker(s): John Philip Newell