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Stop the World I Want to Get Off

From Chiapas to Seattle and from Seattle to Porto Alegre, it seems the WTO, IMF and the World Bank can't meet without mass demonstrations and counter-summits. But what is the 'anti-globalisation'...

Coming Alive in Cyberspace

The communications revolution has transformed the way we perceive each other. The internet in particular changes everything. Or does it? How can we generate a new ethic for the modern world? Lavinia...

A Road Map to Peace?

A Palestinian Christian response to the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. Nora Carmi is a Palestinian Christian (social activist and writer) from Sabeel Liberation Theology Centre,

O Little Town!

In 2002 the people of Bethlehem spent 8 months of the year living under curfew, confined to their homes. The town was repeatedly targeted and the Church of the Nativity was under seige for 40 days,...

The Loud Language of Need

John Bell ponders whether Christianity is primarily a crutch to support inadequate people, or whether the wholistic impact of the Gospel is lost behind our obsession with need. John Bell came to...
Speaker(s): John Bell

Strike a Light

Lenin wrote in his Letters On Modern Atheism : 'I made a mistake. Without doubt the oppressed multitude had to be liberated. But our method only provoked further oppression - and atrocious massacres....
Speaker(s): Dave Andrews

The Shape We’re In

"It's what's inside that counts." Is this really true? Is God concerned with bodies, or just our souls? With increasing pressure on women to achieve the 'body beautiful,' we explore historic and...

Five Pagan Values Christians Love: when evil looks good

In this final talk from Mike Yaconelli he guides us through five pagan values that look fantastic ... um, tempting. Mike Yaconelli heads up Youth Specialities, an organisation that trains and...

Alternative Worship – grit in the church’s shell

Alternative Worship has carved out an innovative and creative space in and on the margins of the church in the UK over the last decade, reimagining the possibilites for worship and church. But what...

Making Peace- the art of resolving conflict

From a land where peace has been absent for 55 years, comes a practical guide to conflict resolution using the best of old traditions and modern techniques. At a time when western powers are...

Brother Suns and Sister Moons

We will consider Servants to Asia's Urban Poor as a model of how we can become Brother Suns and Sister Moons engaging the New Dark Age. Servants is a network of mission communities committed to...
Speaker(s): Dave Andrews

The New Dark Ages

Lately I have been having a recurring nightmare - that the world is moving slowly but surely into a New Dark Age. In my dreams I see a landscape shrouded in darkness. And as I look more closely I can...
Speaker(s): Dave Andrews