While you still can – spiritual growth and ageing
An exploration of life issues that arise as we age: finding meaning and purpose; coping with transcending suffering and pain; facing multiple losses; revisiting our image of God; asking for help;...
Non-violent resistance
A workshop focusing on embodying creative alternatives to occupation (applicable to all those living under forms of oppression). Sami Awad is the executive director of Holy Land Trust, a Palestinian...
Speaker(s): Sami AwadWhere is the Palestinian Gandhi?
Will the nonviolence movement bring peace and justice to Palestine on its own? Or do the Palestinians need a leader like Gandhi to really bring change? Sami Awad is the executive director of Holy...
Speaker(s): Sami Awad“I’m coming home”: 40 years on and still no place to rest
Homelessness remains a major social issue 40 years after Jonny Mathis sung ‘I'm coming home'. Reflections on a series of interviews with men and women who have experienced homelessness: their...
Confessions of a road-crossing inter-faithing Jew
What happens when a liberal Jew finds himself married to an Anglican priest? What happens when a liberal Zionist falls out of love with the Zionist dream? What's lost and what's gained when...
Can you really love your enemy?
How do you bring spiritual healing to traumatised communities? Sami speaks of his experience of living behind The Wall and not losing hope. Sami Awad is the executive director of Holy Land Trust, a...
Speaker(s): Sami AwadTen Personal Decisions for the Common Good
The common good and the quality of our life together will finally be determined by the personal decisions we all make. The ‘commons' – those places where we come together as neighbours and...
Is a simple country parson sustainable?
What kind of church is sustainable in rural Britain? Everybody talks about faith in the city but what's happening to faith in the country? Is it the preserve of the elderly and nostalgic or is...
What good is a Church in the Inner City?
The pace of life is often fast moving in the city. It can be a place of noise, hustle and bustle. Often a place where one is anonymous – a “dogeat- dog” world. This talk will explore the role...
Making a Meal of It
Open door, shared tables, community meals or eating with others? Whether sharing a cuppa and a piece of cake or sitting down to a major meal, join Rachel Turner and hear stories, ideas, passions and...
Forgiveness
In 2001, Ray and Vi Donovan's son was killed, with three men receiving long sentences for the crime. A decade later the couple met the murderers, in a properly facilitated Restorative Justice...
On God’s Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn’t Learned about Serving the Common Good.
Rev Jim Wallis shows us how to reclaim Jesus' ancient and compelling vision of the common good – a vision that affects and inspires not only our politics but also our personal lives, families,...
In the beginning was the relation: Creation
Suppose the creative word emerged from God's love for creation and grief at the violence and evil human beings have wreaked on the planet? A look at the Balfour Declaration of 1917, when the...
Dazzling Darkness – Being a trans, lesbian priest in the Church today
Dazzling Darkness – Being a trans, lesbian priest in the Church today Exploring her experience of changing sex, of being lesbian and chronically ill, and of being a Church of England priest, Rachel...
Speaker(s): Rachel MannMaking beautiful
Beyond the behaviour of others we are peacemakers and love makers. A workshop not for spectators but participants looking to grow our spiritual emotional social together. Seeking Shalom, making...