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 WellsHeartedge: 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 WellsHeartedge: Reimagining Church and Culture
With Andrew Earis, Jonathan Kearney, Giles Goddard and Anna Sikorska How may the church be part of a cultural renaissance with art, music and ideas re-imagining the Christian narrative for the...
Speaker(s): Sam WellsThe 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 KrznaricYour 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-MacMillanDark 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 HiltonSisters 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 residenceJews 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 GluckThings 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 WittenbergRivers 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 ReddieMeet 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 residenceRiot 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 residenceBorders 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...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó TuamaImagination, 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 GooderReclaiming 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