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STAYING ALIVE: A Conversation

Building on sessions that we've hosted at the festival over the past few years with artists like Bobby Baker and Jo Enright, hear author Matt Haig and disability rights advocate Katharine...
Speaker(s): Matt Haig, Katharine Welby-Roberts

The Real Benefits Street / The Truth about Sanctions

How did the government's ‘benefit sanctions' policy end up leading to hunger, destitution and desperation? Why are people on benefits being stigmatised? Joining Angela Neville, author of Can...
Speaker(s): Angela Neville, Niall Cooper

Forgive us our debts?

With ever-increasing indebtedness, is it time to rethink lending and borrowing altogether? Are there other ways to make the money go round? With Anastasia French (Debt Trap, The Children's...
Speaker(s): David Barclay, Kit Beazley

Twitter Vicars and the Sacrament of Social Media

Are you wearing your clerical collar online? How can you be a vicar on Twitter? Can you be a Facebook Father or a Snapchat Sister? Three well known social media lovers and working priests on managing...
Speaker(s): Giles Fraser, Kate Bottley, Rev. Richard Coles

Movements of the Spirit

How come so many of us lost confidence in political parties? Don't believe the system represents us? Aren't convinced our vote will change anything? But how come so many of us think new, looser,...
Speaker(s): Jeff Halper, Dave Andrews, Maya Evans

Asylum and Exile: Voices of Refugees

Bidisha will introduce her work on asylum seekers and refugees, uncovering their life stories. She will then be joined by Ilona Pinter, policy adviser at The Children's Society and co-chair of the...
Speaker(s): Bidisha, Dave Smith, Fuzz Kitto

ISIS and beyond: what’s happening in the Middle East?

How should we understand the phenomenon of ISIS? What has fuelled its rise – is it the Sunni/Shia divide, foreign intervention, the Arab Spring or even the unresolved conflict in Israel-Palestine?...
Speaker(s): Bidisha, Jeremy Moodey, Jeff Halper

Nuclear: Necessary or Nonsense

70 years on from the horrors of Hiroshima, the UK government is still in thrall to the nuclear option. Why does there seem so little appetite for seriously considering the benefits of scrapping...
Speaker(s): Bruce Kent

Being Human

The opportunity to live rather than sleepwalk through our days belongs to us. We can discover a practical spirituality that helps shape our lives into everything we were meant to be: part of the...
Speaker(s): Steve Chalke

A Place of Refuge

Tobias tells the story of Windsor Hill Wood, the ‘extended household' he created with his family to offer traditional Christian hospitality and a peaceful environment where people going through...
Speaker(s): Tobias Jones

What is Science For in the Kingdom of God?

With a scientist's reading of the Book of Job as centrepiece, science can be seen as a deeply religious activity, participating in what St Paul calls ‘the ministry of reconciliation'. Tom...
Speaker(s): Tom McLeish

In Defence of Idleness

Not everything can be measured. Why rest and time off are crucial to Christian faith and why people's importance is not about what they produce or do. Sarah Farrimond is a curate in the CofE and...
Speaker(s): Sarah Farrimond

Confessions of a part-time author

At Greenbelt 2013, Simon gave an exclusive reading from his third Itch book, Itchcraft. This year, six months away from his next novel's publication, he's back. The book is called Blame, but...
Speaker(s): Simon Mayo

A Confident Society Should Encourage People to Opt Out

Writing a novel about a future where corporations run Britain and survival depends on social media popularity made Stephen Oram wonder: If the state created the opportunity for you to opt out, would...
Speaker(s): Stephen Oram

On Guerrilla Gardening

You could almost describe Richard Reynolds as the Banksy of the gardening world – just replace the spray can with a trowel. He (literally) wrote the book on guerilla gardening. Be inspired to sow a...
Speaker(s): Richard Reynolds