Spirituality as relationship
The buzz word, which follows on from the late C20 discoveries of personality and sexuality, has to do with a process not a destination. Here John Bell examines how to get it going. John Bell is a...
Speaker(s): John BellIsrael’s “invisible” occupation: the matrix of control
Power is enforced by means of the 'Matrix of Control' - the subtle ways, administrative and physical, by which Israel expands its control without the world noticing. How can the Matrix be...
Speaker(s): Jeff HalperA Global God is nonviolence possible in the Middle-East
The violence of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israeli have created an unending spiral of violence. You wouldn't know it from media reports, but...
Jesus – Soul Food
When the Jesus Movement came in the late 1960s Time magazine was announcing "God is Dead." Everything was so secular and materialistic. But a great soul thirst followed and a new generation went...
Mustard Seed vs McWorld… creating new ways to put first things first
Creativity time... In this seminar we will show you imaginative new ways you can both advance God's purposes and engage tomorrow's challenges... in your lives, congregations and God's world. Come...
Emerging Church – kiss of life?
Glimpses of the way ahead. How can the church re-focus for the 21st century? Is something new emerging? How can it succeed without being fundamentalist? How can it connect with people outside of...
Speaker(s): Dave TomlinsonEnough is enough: the gospel in a consumer society
The most serious problem that confronts humanity in the coming century is the ecological problem. this is driven by the doctrine of unlimited economic growth. How should Chrisitans respond to this?...
Street children- global perspectives
Activists join to discuss global issues affecting street kids, to listen to each other's experience and to share grass-roots knowledge of an ever growing crisis. With Tom Hewitt (South Africa),...
HIV/AIDS: take your bed and go to your home
Romy was a co-founder of the Muslim-Christian Agency for Rural Development based in Mindanao, Philippines. It became a partner of Christian Aid in 1979. In 1991 he went to Edinburgh University as a...
Why aren’t there any women speakers?
is it just us, or does everyone struggle to find women contributors? Does it matter? What's stopping the wider participation of a more diverse range of people in church? How can we make sure there is...
Streetkids in South Africa: a question of survival
Imagine your child living on the streets in a big city, sleeping in doorways or bushes, begging at busy junctions, sniffing glue to numb the pain. This is the reality for hundreds of children in...
Community ministry – what next?
This session involves taking a sideways look at community involvement. Ann Morisy reckons that by focusing on meeting people's needs we may miss some important opportunities for helping people to...
8 men and a duck: an improbable voyage by reed boat to Easter Island
Travel writer Nick Thorpe blagged his way into a hare-brained 2500-mile Pacific raft odyssey after overhearing a conversation on a Bolivian bus. Today he reads from his recently published book, shows...
Sustainable development and the forgotten commandment
Greenbelt 2002 coincides with the beginning of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, the 10-years after 'follow up' to the Rio Earth Summit of 1992. But why is the environment...
Secular Prophets in Rock
Steve Stockman takes a break from writing his follow up to Walk On;The Spiritual Journey of U2, to share his research...Artists without a Christian confession who have prophecied into society,...