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WWJD

Could climate change create the moment when we unite in the spirit of community? Or will it be our suicide pact? In a world under threat we are challenged to ask WWJD? Described in the media as...

Our global search for spirituality

Our planet is marked by deep spiritual crisis, yet there are signs that we are experiencing a spiritual renaissance. Ursula explores the many meanings of spirituality, with a vision of hope and...

Toxic childhood

Has the commercialisation of childhood won? To advertisers children are anything from small, absorbent consumercapitalists, to fulcrums of parent pester-power, and receptacles of prematurely adult...

What are intersex conditions & what does the church say?

How can local congregations be welcoming and respectful of people with variant sex and gender? Susannah Cornwall writes and teaches on issues of queer and feminist theology, sexuality and disability.

GB90-106 The thoughtful ‘Charismatic’

Real encounter with the divine bringing freedom and joy or weird and controlling cult of infantilising theology? Time to rethink the ‘charismatic movement' says Simon Hall, who knows it from the...

One-Minute Mystic

Building on his weekly Daily Mail column of the same name, Simon looks at how practical mysticism can become integrated in our lives - whatever our particular beliefs. Mysticism is the stream which...
Speaker(s): Simon Parke

The children of Helen House revisited

What would your response be if you'd met a two year old girl recovering from a brain tumour and was now in a coma being looked after by her parents at home? Pity? Offers of financial help? Sister...

Open houses in ‘not nice’ places?

If you have or are thinking of moving into a part of your city which is not the normal attempt to climb a property ladder, at least partly because you are trying to follow a biblical imperative and...

Non-violent resistance in Palestine

Hear about the daily struggles involved in breaking the cycle of violence and oppression, offering hope for Palestine and Israel.
Speaker(s): Sami Awad

The God of Occupation

Hear about the daily struggles involved in breaking the cycle of violence and oppression, offering hope for Palestine and Israel. Sitting in the middle of a desert, the hot sun beating down on the...
Speaker(s): Sami Awad

Saint? Sinner? The important of context

Are people who do terrible things very different from us? Sarah outlines some key research and explores some surprising results - and what it might mean for our discipleship. Sarah Jones is a parish...

Creativity and social enterprise

Got a great idea? Want to make it happen? We believe that small things can lead to BIG change in the world around us. And we want to help you... take your idea, figure out the enterprising...

In conversation

Sally will be discussing her latest book and the art of writing for children. Sally Nicholls is the author of Ways To Live Forever, winner of the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize 2008. It tells...

The love of our times

Alastair's third talk explores war and climate change as Jeremiads of our times. How can we deepen empathy and seek transformation of the human condition? Sometime in the future, someone will...
Speaker(s): Alastair McIntosh