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When Certainty Fails

Poetry seeks to find words of meaning when other words fail. Pádraig Ó Tuama's poetry explores faith, gay identity, conflict and story, and intersperses it with anecdote, warmth and humour to...

Let Us Remember: Stories Of Peace From The First World War

The witness of peacemakers in WW1 should prompt us to question how we resist and challenge war in 2014. What better way to commemorate the ‘war to end all wars'? Campaigner, educator and...
Speaker(s): Pat Gaffney

Good Myth, Bad Myth

Myth takes us on a journey through literature, social theory, migration politics and the environmental imagination. Beyond ‘myth-busting' and telling tales of the oppressed, how can the...
Speaker(s): Naomi Millner

Atheists: The Origin Of The Species

Where does atheism come from? Nick explains the origin and direction of Western unbelief. Who were the first modern atheists and why did they reject God so angrily? Did Darwin kill God? And is...
Speaker(s): Nick Spencer

Seeking Sanctuary, Sexuality And Staying Safe

A discussion about the problems faced by the LGBT community leading to direct actions at strategic, community and interpersonal levels to address the injustice and oppression within the asylum...
Speaker(s): North East Gay Asylum Group

Like Father, Like Daughter: The Tutu Legacy

Using prerecorded video footage of her father Desmond Tutu (following his Templeton Prize award), hear Mpho reflect on her father's words and life with Prof. Richard Burridge. Mpho is an Episcopal...
Speaker(s): Mpho Tutu

A Romp Through The Church Year With Sinners And Saints

From creating an Advent icon out of torn up bits of Christmas advertising, to a ‘Selling of Indulgences' bake sale on Reformation Day – come and see a slide show of how House For All Sinners...
Speaker(s): Nadia Bolz-Weber

The Authority Of Experience And What The Gospel Has To Say About Real Bodies, People, Events And Trauma

What The Gospel Has To Say About Real Bodies, People, Events And Trauma How a Christian community responded to school shootings, the Trayvon Martin murder, and gay suicides. Nadia is the founding...
Speaker(s): Nadia Bolz-Weber

A Political Theology Of Climate Change

The UN and the UK government are failing to mitigate climate changing practices. This is because they think of the earth as capital resource, not divine creation. Reaffirming the earth as God's...
Speaker(s): Michael Northcott

George Herbert: Poems That Can Seriously Damage Your Atheism

George Herbert, a 17th-century courtier and priest, who died at 33 having written only one book of poems, still grips the imagination. What do his poems have to say about life, faith and the church...

The Four-Fold Path To Forgiving – The Book Of Forgiving

Written jointly with her father Archbishop Desmond Tutu and based on their own experience, The Book of Forgiving is an inspiring and practical guide to forgiveness; learning to let go of resentment;...
Speaker(s): Mpho Tutu

How To Be A Human

Matt Haig talks to Martin Wroe about his novel The Humans (‘Hilarious' – Guardian). In particular he will discuss how looking at the human species through the eyes of an extra-terrestrial...
Speaker(s): Matt Haig

The Depressives Of The Bible

25% of us suffer from mental health problems. Mercifully the Bible doesn't shy away from depicting real people with their real struggles. So what can those of us with depression, anxiety and other...
Speaker(s): Matt Page

Voices From Syria

Four stories, four choices. More than three million people have fled the crisis in Syria into neighbouring countries. Actors share real life stories from refugees and the difficult decisions they...

From Survival To Redevelopment

Leaders of Manchester Aid to Kosovo share examples of their 15-year experience supporting recovery from the Balkans ethnic cleansing campaign. MaK projects include human rights, education, art, sport...
Speaker(s): Manchester Aid to Kosovo