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Who is my Neighbour? The Global and Personal Challenge

What should Christ's injunction to 'love your neighbour' mean in practice today? Sam Wells explores this question and considers its bearing on the politics of poverty, discrimination, immigration,...
Speaker(s): Sam Wells

Heartedge: Reimagining Church and Commerce

With Sam Wells, David Alcock, Ruth Amos, Mark Kinder and Rob Wardle How can commerce and church be realigned in order to take finances beyond the benefactor and the steward while deepening and...
Speaker(s): Sam Wells

Dark Night of the Shed. On wheels.

Rob Hilton is an imagineer. When Methodist Ministry gets too much he builds prayer sheds, including a Shepherd's Hut called Hilda. Learning to weld, recycling Dorothy Perkins changing rooms, and...
Speaker(s): Rev Rob Hilton

The Lost Art of Seizing the Day

Carpe diem - seize the day - is one of the oldest pieces of life advice in Western history. Roman Krznaric delves into its many interpretations, examines how it has been hijacked and asks how we...
Speaker(s): Roman Krznaric

Your Noisy Heart: Overcoming the Tyranny of our Inner Voices

Inner voices - they screw us up! Negative ones lock us into prisons of inadequacy. Positive ones lead us into addictions of achievement. If our voices run our lives they will ruin it. But if we learn...
Speaker(s): Ron Boyd-MacMillan

Sisters Are Doing It For… Everyone

Pussy Riot in residence Hang out with the bravest feminists on the planet - Pussy Riot. Putting their bodies on the line in Putin's patriarchal Russia, these women know no fear. At least they act...
Speaker(s): Pussy Riot in residence

Jews And Muslims Taking The Peace

After being involved in back-channel peace talks with Bosnians, Iraquis, Kosovans, Iranians and Sudanese, Rabbi Gluck turns his attention to the situation in his own backyard here in the U.K., to...
Speaker(s): Rabbi Herschel Gluck

Things My Dog Has Taught Me – About Being a Better Human

Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg's dog Mitzpah regularly ensures that he has time for long walks. The relationship has become indispensable to the spiritual wellbeing of both their lives. These emotional...
Speaker(s): Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg

Meet the Pussy Riot Collective

We welcome the members of the Pussy Riot collective who will be in residence with us across the weekend. Martin Wroe asks the questions as we start to get to know them, what makes them tick and the...
Speaker(s): Pussy Riot in residence

Riot Days, the book

Riot Days is feminist dissident Maria Alyokhina's punk record of history, a dreamlike and visceral counter to the patriarchy and abuse of power in Putin's Russia. One of the founders of the Pussy...
Speaker(s): Pussy Riot in residence

Rivers Of Blood. 50 Years On.

In 2018 the Windrush scandal followed the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr and Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech. This talk examines the corrosive power of...
Speaker(s): Anthony Reddie

Borders and Belonging

Brexit has resurfaced questions of British-Irish relations, particularly around the border between the two Irish jurisdictions. Taking the extraordinary text of Ruth from the Hebrew Bible, Pádraig...

Imagination, the Bible and the Church – why we need it now more than ever.

The church, and indeed the world, is in desperate need of a renewed imagination - and not just to help us read the Bible well. Paula explores how imagination can lift words off the page and bring...
Speaker(s): Paula Gooder

Reclaiming Phoebe: Historical imagination and the world of Paul

Paula talks about the process of writing her most recent book about Phoebe, an unsung deacon of the early Christian church. Come and hear where the idea for the book came from, what Paula struggled...
Speaker(s): Paula Gooder

The Culture of God

For centuries, Christians have turned their faith into a Western phenomenon, and this has distorted the message of Christ. Syrian-born Nadim Nassar seeks to reveal the true face of the Eastern Jesus...
Speaker(s): Nadim Nassar