Too Hot To Handle: Climate Change Knows No Borders
Can we really cooperate to fight the ravages of climate change? And now that the UK faces Brexit, will the good things that the EU has done on climate care be lost? Do NGOs and campaigning...
Speaker(s): Bill McKibbenForget Me Not
Join three special guests whose lives have each been touched by dementia and who have responded in various ways through theology, writing and action. Share in their experiences, thinking and learning...
Speaker(s): Professor John Swinton, Rebecca de Saintonge, Sally MagnussonHas Online Dating changed everything?
Online dating is now ever-present in our lives. From Match.com to Tinder, how has it changed the way we form relationships? Are things better or worse? Safer or scarier? How can we understand and use...
Speaker(s): Jackie Elton, Dr David Pullinger, Vicky Walker, Kate BottleyThe Lemonade Effect: Beyonce, Blackness, feminism and white discomfort
A group of Beyonce fans gather to explore what her turn to a more overt Black feminist voice on Lemonade might mean. Part of our Black Lives Matter programming, expect a lively, theological...
Speaker(s): Broderick Greer, Vanessa KisuuleCalais Doesn’t Need Your Cast-Offs
Rounding off a festival full of refugee programming, let's bring our hopes and fears together and encourage one another to act. What should we do? How shall we respond in ways that will make a real...
Speaker(s): Chris Sonnex, USPG, Katherine Maxwell-RoseGiving: good. Fundraising: bad?
Speaker(s): Zoe Bunter
Scrap The Church?
Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God, we delivered the Church. Is this what he had in mind? Does the Church do the work of God or get in its way? What are our alternatives to continuing business as...
Speaker(s): Nadia Bolz-Weber, Andrew Brown, Savi HensmanHome from Home: Britain’s Housing Crisis
Children of the State
Speaker(s): Krish Kandiah, Lemn Sissay
Looking Past ‘Us & Them’
What if churches asked their neighbours for help? Livability and Church Urban Fund explore collaborative models for building community so we can enjoy the fullness of life together. In association...
Speaker(s): LivabilityAccess All Areas
Speaker(s): Chris Sonnex
Talking Reconciliation
The story of the Community of the Cross of Nails, a reconciliation movement born out of the ashes of the Coventry blitz. A conversation around the desire for unity. John Witcombe is Dean of...
Speaker(s): Craig Muir & John WitcombePeople Power
No one understands community organising better than Neil Jameson. Come learn how to campaign for social justice and a better world; discover the political argument that underlines Citizens UK and its...
Speaker(s): Neil JamesonDisappointment, Doubt, and Other Spiritual Gifts
Explore the hidden and humbling side of the spiritual journey. We are small, sensitive creatures with short lifespans in a world that is chaotic, capricious, and mysterious. But failures and...
Speaker(s): Mark YaconelliMy Dear Ones
A family's story of human tenacity, faith and a race for survival in the face of unspeakable horror and cruelty perpetrated by the Nazi regime by one of the most important figures in the British...
Speaker(s): Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg