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Acting for future generations – lessons from a small country

The word 'polycrisis' has become part of our lexicon and people across the world are feeling the affects of a failure to plan for the long term. Why do politicians find it so hard to think ahead and...
Speaker(s): Sophie Howe

Fear of the Future Panel

With the existential threat of climate change, the cost of living crisis, the long shadow of COVID, war in Ukraine, famine in Ethiopia (again), and the collapse of political truth-telling - it's no...
Speaker(s): Sophie Howe, Melanie Nazareth, Jyothi Cross, Becky Hall

Why did the COVID narrative collapse?

Why are there so many conflicting stories about the origin and spread of COVID and the consequences of our pandemic response? Is there a single truth? How could we have done better in the face of the...
Speaker(s): Sunetra Gupta

Burned Out Fighting For Climate Justice

We are no longer talking about climate predictions - the crisis is happening now. But we must neither throw our hands up in defeat nor hide away in despair. The planet, its people and other creatures...
Speaker(s): Ruth Valerio

Counter-Cultural Community: living a ‘very common life’

The idea of living in community can sound a little odd, perhaps almost impossible. How do you genuinely live 'in common' while treasuring diversity? How can you connect deeply to justice concerns...
Speaker(s): Martin Wroe, Iona Community

Mad World

Exploring the history of asylums and psychiatry; the relationship between disability justice, queer liberation and mental health; art and creativity; prisons and abolition; and alternative models of...
Speaker(s): Micha Frazer-Carroll

Palestine: the compass of injustice and dignity

On being a Palestinian: living in Palestine and in the diaspora. Engaging questions of faith, liberation and oppression for a silenced, oppressed, and struggling community, torn apart by apartheid....
Speaker(s): Muna Nassar

Disability and Justice: Prophets on the Edge

Disabled people have long been seen as objects of the church's ministry, outreach and care. Yet many of us are speaking back with a prophetic call for disability justice, in a world and church that...
Speaker(s): Naomi Lawson Jacobs & Emily Richardson

In the beginning, God made bisexuals

Mining the memories embedded in his acclaimed memoir, Out of the Woods, Luke Turner explores how forests can help us find new understandings and happiness in our human sexuality. Luke is a writer and...
Speaker(s): Luke Turner

Theology For the End of the World

It feels like the world is ending. In the midst of apocalyptic times it's tempting to cling on tightly to what we still have. But what if our desire to save the world is part of the problem? Marika...
Speaker(s): Marika Rose

Living within the Doughnut: Business and social purpose

Doughnut Economics is being globally adopted by governments and communities. Chaired by Rebecca Harvey (editor of Co-operative News), hear from DEAL'S Enrich Sahan about the latest tool for...
Speaker(s): David Alcock

Wild Christianity

Storyteller and award-winning author Dr Martin Shaw is claiming that Christianity has forgotten it's a dream. What on earth does he mean? Through fairy tale, personal anecdote and reflections on his...
Speaker(s): Martin Shaw

Shooting the messenger – is our freedom to protest disappearing?

Disruptive protest has been vital in the struggle to secure justice and social change. As the environmental emergency intensifies and climate protesters are desperately seeking change, the government...
Speaker(s): Melanie Nazareth, Jonathan Herbert

Power, Betrayal and Liberation: L’Arche after Jean Vanier

What do you do when a 'living saint' uses his authority to manipulate and abuse people? How do you rage, grieve, and find something more beautiful than before? Members of the L'Arche Communities of...
Speaker(s): Lucy Winkett, Richard Keagan-Bull, Hazel Bradley

It’s Not Me… It’s You.

How come so many of us have broken up with church? We take part less and less often. Or not at all. It used to be part of our lives… until it wasn't. What's your story? Why did you call time on the...
Speaker(s): Marika Rose, Dave Tomlinson