Failure, frustration and loss ; the common person’s path to holiness
Being a human being is problematic. If success is not a name for God' as Martin Buber once asserted, then how do we measure a life? Is there a way to experience our failure, frustration and loss as...
Speaker(s): Mark YaconelliMessage to a dying church
What if we could confess that after all these years, the truth remains that we're not very good at Christianity? We might be surprised to find that within our aging congregations is a capacity for...
Speaker(s): Mark YaconelliDoes theology matter for peaceful coexistence
Mona explores classical and contemporary Islamic thinking on God and faith, society and authority, pluralism and mission to ask how theology can be both a cohesive and a divisive force in...
Speaker(s): Mona SiddiquiAngels & Announcements
People in the bible always seemed to have it easy because God provided a clear instruction in the voice of an angel. Maggi will be taking a closer look at some of those stories to see what we can ....
Towards a Jewish Theology of liberation
What does the concept of liberation mean for Judaism and Jewish life? What does it mean to be faithful today as a Jew and what is the role of the prophetic in that fidelity? Marc Ellis is Professor...
Unholy alliance religion/atrocity in our time
Can religion tree itself of power? Instead should we be thinking of people of faith across religious lines who, distant from the ConstantInian formations of religion, come into a solidarity of...
Is Israel Different?
From its inception in 1948, questions have swirled arnund Israel 's existence and policies. How should it be regarded within the international community? And what do the different understandings mean...
Martyr Virgin Mystic Wife
What do Christian women have to say to 21st century British society? The feminisation of football and the first female Home Secretary are signs of a changing landscape. Where do we go from...
Speaker(s): Lucy WinkettPop McWorship versus the real thing
Is relevance all there is? What's left when a coke and a coffee are awesome? How the hype has eclipsed the holy and sacred in life. John Smith is the founding director of Concern Australia and God's...
The greatest environmentalists in history
What on earth has heaven got to do with earth? John sets out why we need another. Apostles Creed, and why creationism misses the point. John Smith is the founding director of Concern Australia and...
A conversation with John Tavener
Classical music royalty will be in our midst as Greenbelt is privileged to welcome Sir John Tavener, one of the country's most popular living composers. A prodigious talent, Tavener was installed at...
Is Religion Dangerous
Many recent writers like Richard Dawkins have written vitriolic tracts against religion, which they regard as dangerous and immoral. Have they really looked at the facts about the effects of religion...
The Vocation to Protest
In an era of soft-soap spirituality where some Christians are looking for palliative care, it's maybe time to look at a more radical expectation of God, in the company of John Lennon, the Dixie...
Speaker(s): John BellAssault on Glory
The early stories of Genesis have caused more heat than light. Are they historical records of our memory, or gifts for our imagination with relevance to faith in todays world? John Bell was born and...
Speaker(s): John BellHeaven in ordinary
Is everyday life a grind, or a gift? We spend most of our time doing mundane things, so why not turn that into a celebration? With help from various artists, thinkers - and that great trickster Jesus...
Speaker(s): John Davies