Singleness: A New Challenge for Church & Community
The number of people not married or cohabiting is rising and a third of UK adults are now single, many of them Christian. Some flourish, but others face hard lives. This trend challenges both society...
Speaker(s): Dr David PullingerThe Bad Christian’s Manifesto – How To Reinvent God (And Other Modest Proposals)
Why doesn't the God of religion fit the God-shaped hole in people any more? How can we re-imagine divinity in the 21st century? Is there an antidote for involuntary atheism? Vicar of St Luke's,...
Speaker(s): Dave TomlinsonThe Problem(s) With Worship
What has the experience of ‘contemporary worship' become? What problems did it solve – and create? Why is there a lot of ‘worship malaise' these days – and what needs to be done in the...
Speaker(s): Brian McLarenVerse From The Verge – Poetry, Song And The Gypsy Storytelling Tradition
For a thousand years, Romany culture was maintained almost exclusively through spoken and sung tradition. Damian discusses the past, present and future of Gypsy storytelling, interspersed with his...
Speaker(s): Damian Le BasWoodbine Willie: An Unsung Hero Of World War One
Rev. Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, known as Woodbine Willie, volunteered as a chaplain on the Western Front and won the Military Cross for his reckless courage. Bob Holman's biography is based on...
Speaker(s): Bob HolmanThe Bible 3.0
The church that is emerging is discovering new ways of reading the Bible – and they make all the difference for critical issue like gender, sexuality, the environment, poverty, and peace. One of...
Speaker(s): Brian McLarenWhat Will Religion Become?
What are the prospects for religion in tomorrow's world? What internal problems must religions solve? What external problems must they engage? How can Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism,...
Speaker(s): Brian McLarenTravelling By Light Fragments
Why is faith so tongue-tied in our culture? What would a Christian life of prayer, imagination and science, open to culture, look like? Lecturer-tutor in Christian Spirituality at Sarum College,...
Speaker(s): Barnabas PalfreyHow To Birth A New Idea
A small idea can help spark a movement for women's freedom. This will be a time to nurture inspiration and give breath to thoughts deep within our hearts. Offering space to give life to new visions...
Speaker(s): Becca Stevens, Thistle Farms (and the Sisters of Magdalene)A Recipe for Mixing Lavish Love into Social Enterprise
Mixing your best ideals into the marketplace creates a recipe that allows economic growth to rise with justice. Love is good business. Becca will share ideas about how we can take our most lavish...
Speaker(s): Becca Stevens, Thistle Farms (and the Sisters of Magdalene)Help Thanks Wow
As Anne Lamott says herself, ‘there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help. Thanks. Wow.' It's these three prayers – asking for assistance, appreciating the good and...
Speaker(s): Anne LamottAnne Lamott In Conversation
She writes and speaks about subjects that begin with capital letters: Alcoholism, Motherhood, Jesus. But armed with self- e acing humour and ruthless honesty, Lamott converts us into enchantment....
Speaker(s): Anne Lamott, Jo Browning WroeBird By Bird: Some Instructions On Writing And Life
Anne Lamott's classic work on writing, Bird by Bird, is by turns warm, hilarious and acutely observed. Join Anne for a reading from this much-loved book and hear her speak on what it means to live...
Speaker(s): Anne LamottIsland Spirituality: Celtic Scotland and a Christian Vision for the Third Millennium
From the spirituality of the underlying undivided Church, through the medieval and modern eras which gave rise to violent atonement theologies, a look at nonviolent liberation approaches of the third...
Speaker(s): Alastair McIntoshThe Importance Of Elsewhere: Travelling With Literature
Andrew explores the figure of the traveller from the book of Genesis to 21st-century fiction. Join him on the road and follow the literary journeys of, among others, John Bunyan, Jack Kerouac, Annie...
Speaker(s): Andrew Tate