Rev: In conversation with James Wood
Rev is a sitcom based around the life of Adam Smallbone, an inner-city vicar, and the trials he goes through to keep his parish and community together. Honest, refreshing and funny, the show has been...
Abrigando esperanzas
Abrigando esperanzas is a Spanish term for sheltering hope. Eliacin will talk about movements of hope in Latin America and how their values and practices demonstrate active and incarnational ways to...
Cinematic States: A Journey Through The American Dreamlife
Gareth Higgins watched one movie from each of the 50 US states and the resulting book, Cinematic States, reveals movies to be the first draft of the US national myth, rooting the country in ancient...
Speaker(s): Gareth HigginsThe English Civil War & the Future of the Church of England
The Church of England was transformed by the experience of the English Civil War. After the national trauma of so much horror and bloodshed, the Church of England presented itself as a peace treaty...
Speaker(s): Giles FraserCommunity Struggle Theology Hope
How the battle against climate change and poverty is being fought through liberation theology, community empowerment and social enterprise in Nicaragua. Gustavo A Parajon is the founding president...
Peacebuilding Is Not For Wimps
Peacebuilding is a countercultural activity not often welcomed by the international community or local religious leaders. This session looks at the processes involved in bringing Bosnian Muslim...
Cultivating Liberated Spaces
Exploring the ways in which we can create liberated spaces to break down occupation, resist assimilation and create alternatives. What structures within our society get in the way of the Kingdom of...
The Be-attitude Revolution
The Beatitudes describe the kingdom of heaven as a place where the meek inherit the earth, the merciful receive mercy, those who hunger for justice are fulfilled and peacemakers walk proudly as sons...
Speaker(s): Dave AndrewsBe the Change Campaign
The exciting story of Dave and Ange Andrews' campaign for us to be the change we want to see in the world (wecan.be). Discover how you can be part of it. Dave and Ange Andrews have lived and...
Speaker(s): Dave AndrewsSurviving as a religious minority
Leicester is the first majority ethnic minority city in the UK, but it won't be the last. Tim Stevens, Bishop of Leicester, and Dilwar Hussain of the Islamic Foundation discuss what their city has...
Dark Stories in Safe Spaces
Do games offer a valuable resource to engage with dark or taboo topics? Video games can provide a safe play-space in which we can explore our responses to potentially frightful and scary topics –...
That Awkward Age
Miracle birth of a new collection and an afternoon of poems to amaze and delight! McGough wrestles with mortality, seeks love in the launderette, perspires in the Foreign Legion and jives in...
Let’s All Tickle In Public
Cookson and Henderson, with their poetic Gang Show, see how many of you they can cram under the canvas before the fire officer complains. Like all the great double acts - Eric and Ernie, Vic and Bob,...
How Jade and Leona helped us find new soul
From the funeral of the Big Brother star to the final of X Factor, Cole Moreton finds a surprising amount to celebrate in who we are now, and what we believe in. Could it be that God isn't dead,...
Scrap Plan A, try Plan Be
Our world is in trouble because in a crisis we resort to Plan A, treating others as they treat us. Dave and Ange Andrews explore how we can reverse this cycle by trying Plan Be, treating others as we...
Speaker(s): Dave Andrews