Suffer Little Children
Describing Casa Alianza's ongoing battle to combat trafficking, abuse and sexual exploitation of children in Central America. Bruce Harris is an internationally respected children's rights advocate...
Memories Of Bliss
What turns you on? For some of us it's not just tans or tits, bums or six packs. People can get turned on by everything from Vaughn Williams to vaginas and from God to the groin. Jo Ind argues that...
Asylum – an overstated case or a deepening crisis
The popular press continue to demonise refugees and asylum seekers. The government pursues one failed policy after another. What is the reality? Is there another way? What are Christian...
The ‘F’ Word Again
Families - we all belong to them. Sometimes we wish we didn't. But, whatever forms they take, families can be powerful places of faith development. Joan will explore issues facing families today and...
Christian Fiction
They will be reading from their books 'If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things' and 'The Last Girl', and discussing the inspirations behind them; in particular, the influences their beliefs have or...
The Buffy Stake Out!
Looking at blood, guts and redemption in the Buffy archives, Judith talks target audiences, target age groups and, in Buffy's case, just plain targets. What does an audience get from Buffy? is it the...
Prosectuing the Perpectrators
Detailing Casa Alianza's groundbreaking work in defending and protecting the rights of street children in Central America and explaining how you can play your part to help deliver justice for...
How Compromise Can Seriously Improve Your Life
Every preacher tells us that when Jesus said "Give everything to the poor" he was exaggerating for effect! But has it ever bothered you that he might actually have meant it? It bothers Christian Aid...
Voices from the desert – Manic Street Preachers
Reflecting on the work of the Manic Street Preachers, this talk explores the desert in today's world and teaches us to hear the voices of these unlikely prophets who tell the truth about the human...
Voices from the desert- RS Thomas
Continuing the quest to hear the prophet's voices from the desert, in this follow up talk, Leslie Griffiths examines the poetry of RS Thomas. Leslie Griffiths was educated at Llanelli Grammar School...
The Meaning of Work
Is the work we do simply a means of paying for our mortgage, holidays and pension, or does it say something about who we are and our purpose in life? And as work trends change to offer more...
Speaker(s): Fraser DyerFighting talk 1: Should We Have Gone to War?
How might Christians think through the issues surrounding the war in Iraq? Giles Fraser is the Vicar of Putney and lecturer in Philosophy at Wadham College, Oxford. He writes on issues on...
Speaker(s): Giles FraserWaving Not Drowning
Like a lot of people who are scared of the water or can't swim, many of us think we can't operate in threatening environments. But, even if you're not a bronze-bodied surfer, you'd be surprised at...
Those Pearly Gates
In John's vision, the Holy City famously has 'pearly gates'. Doug Gay explores the politics of going to church or not, protests that a churchless faith is reactionary and argues that for us, as for...
Church in the Naughties
Work, Worship and the Sabbath in a 24/7 culture. There is currently much discussion of the shape and organisation of the Church - postevangelical, alternative, emerging, liquid, virtual... What shape...