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Where’s Your Head At?

With suicide rates among young men at all time highs, Rotimi Akinsete explores how they can counter the pressure and stress by developing the sort of habits and routines that can keep their minds (as...
Speaker(s): Rotimi Akinsete

Does Religion Do More Harm than Good?

Are the world's major spiritual traditions sources of greater discord than harmony? Or are conflicts that are widely blamed on faith differences, actually fundamentally social and political in...
Speaker(s): Rupert Shortt

Social Entrepreneurs Workshop

A brilliant opportunity for anyone and everyone involved in social enterprise and business for good to come and workshop with leading global ethical entrepreneur Safia Minney around how we can create...
Speaker(s): Safia Minney

Loving Angels Instead?

One in three people in Britain believe they have a guardian angel, but just 25% say they believe in God. Can you have one without the other? Peter Stanford traces the role angels have played over the...
Speaker(s): Peter Stanford

Bleak Winters, Future Hope – Why Christina Rossetti Still Matters Today

If most people know Christina Rossetti's 'In the Bleak Midwinter', fewer appreciate the range and depth of her poetry. Join Rachel Mann, as she explores how Rossetti speaks into modern anxieties and...
Speaker(s): Rachel Mann

Denied: The Rise and Fall of Climate Contrarianism

For more than a decade, a small, elite group of climate contrarians exerted significant influence on discussions of climate change and energy in the UK. Richard Black explores how they came to...
Speaker(s): Richard Black

A Radical Defence of the Human Being

Paul Mason argues for a new virtue ethics based on resistance to machine control. We face a triple threat - an economic system that does not work, evaporating belief in democracy and human rights,...
Speaker(s): Paul Mason

Radical Reading: Provocation from Pluto – The Age Of Surveillance

Our lives as workers, consumers and citizens are increasingly monitored by new technologies. Simultaneously, big business and finance become increasingly less regulated and controllable. What does...
Speaker(s): Peter Bloom

The Frighteners

Grab your crucifixes, pack the silver bullets and join the Sinister Minister Peter Laws on a celebratory romp through society's morbid curiosities. Just why are we fascinated with the dark, spooky...
Speaker(s): Peter Laws

There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years

Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, plastics, inequality, fake news – the list of concerns for the Anthropocene seems endless. Mike Berners-Lee explores how the big...
Speaker(s): Mike Berners Lee

The Joy in Eco Living

Can we have a high quality, fulfilling life and live in harmony with our environment? Based on 25 years' experience, Mukti Mitchell shows how reducing your carbon footprint makes you happier,...
Speaker(s): Mukti Mitchell

Othello Creative Response

Muneera Pilgrim has collaborated with the English Touring Theatre to create a compelling creative response to Richard Twymans production of Othello. In this performance she explores the relationship...
Speaker(s): Muneera Pilgrim

Stepping Stones to a New Economy

The time for incremental changes and tweaks to the status quo are over. We need a new economic model that works for people and planet. What are the building blocks of this new economic model and how...
Speaker(s): Miatta Fahnbulleh

In Conversation with Michael Leunig

Michael Leunig has been drawing newspaper cartoons for fifty years. His work explores political folly, human nature, spiritual life, mature innocence and the divine creaturely self. Join him in...
Speaker(s): Michael Leunig, Modern Church

Jesus, the Last Inkling, and the Evolution of Consciousness

Owen Barfield is the Oxford Inkling you haven't heard of. He argued that Jesus' life encapsulated a major shift in the evolution of human consciousness. What does this mean for our view of Jesus...
Speaker(s): Mark Vernon