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How Civil Disobedience Can Change The World

Throughout history, oppressive systems have been brought down when people had the courage to imagine something different and break the rules. Drawing on his experience as an anti-apartheid, climate...
Speaker(s): Kumi Naidoo

The Moon: Mother Of Us All

The moon is so familiar that we take it for granted. Yet it orchestrates the tides, dictates the length of a day and the rhythm of the seasons. So let's look at the Moon afresh – to see it not...
Speaker(s): Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Poet, Prophet, Protestor – Daring to Preach in Our Times

That Mark Oakley has three Ps may lull you into a false sense of security. He is on a mission to put the odd back into God and make the sermon an event, stretching the preacher's language, vision...
Speaker(s): Mark Oakley

The Hidden Humour in Holy Scripture

The matter is cloaked in so much secrecy that it would be indecent for the speaker to reveal in advance what might be said. Owners of bendy Bibles with margins covered in green ink notes and triple...
Speaker(s): John Bell

Do Something for Nothing: The Power of Human Connection

Overwhelmed by the everyday reality and scale of homelessness on the streets of the capital city where he lived and worked, Joshua Coombes, a hairdresser by profession decided to do something simple,...
Speaker(s): Joshua Coombes

Pop Christianity

In a year when young people have taken the political lead, Jyothi Cross asks how youth culture fits with modern-day Christianity, exploring all things teen, from video games to Vine and back again...
Speaker(s): Jyothi Cross

The Imagination as Essential to Faith

This seminar is anathema to all who believe that Jesus was a silent baby born in a snowdrift with a mum dressed in blue. But it might open up some avenues to spiritual adventure, without taking...
Speaker(s): John Bell

The People Vs Tech

Tech has radically changed the way we live our lives. But with our fragile political systems threatened by this digital revolution, what do these changes – and the likes of Cambridge Analytica –...
Speaker(s): Jamie Bartlett

Hanging Out With The Outsiders

For two years, Jamie Bartlett went undercover with some of our most radical political outsiders. Immersed with with the likes of Tommy Robinson, green militants, radical futurists and free love...
Speaker(s): Jamie Bartlett

Radical Reading: Provocation from Pluto – Decolonising the University

Gurminder Bhambra explores the movements and campaigns known as ‘decolonising the university', asking questions such as ‘why is my curriculum white' and bringing attention to the Black,...
Speaker(s): Gurminder Bhambra

The Science of Fate

How predictable is your future? Hannah Critchlow delves into the latest scientific research to show the extent to which the course of our lives are hardwired into our brains, from what we choose to...
Speaker(s): Hannah Critchlow

New Wit. New Wisdom.

Artificial intelligence is changing the human person and human community--but to what end? Professor Ilia Delio discusses the vision of Teilhard de Chardin for an AI world where the religious...
Speaker(s): Ilia Delio

Green Economies

Politicians seem to only to talk in terms of the costs of going green. But what about the potential jobs, techonology and innovation? What are the challenges and opportunities of steering towards a...
Speaker(s): Grace Blakeley

How to Save the World from Financialisation

Wit, wisdom and...economics don't often get together in the same field. But stagnant productivity, lack of investment and rising inequality indicate that our finance-led growth economy is broken....
Speaker(s): Grace Blakeley

Climate Emergency? What does that mean? And what are XRs demands?

Climate Change and ecological collapse has been on the edges of public consciousness for decades so why has it become so important at this moment in history? In this session we will explore some of...
Speaker(s): Extinction Rebellion