Why politics matter
Mainstream politics is under fire as never before with people questioning its claim to be an effective tool for changing our world. The traditional political parties, it is claimed, are all much of a...
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Brainwashed
To what do we refer when we speak of religious commitment? Is there any other kind? David Dark suggests that we're perhaps most faithful to the world God so loves when we bring a redemptive and...
The power of the put on: questioning media
Mainstream media is carefully designed and redesigned to hold our attention by any means necessary. But more the more democratic forms of blogging, music and poetry afford us a landscape in which our...
Faith and spirituality in the music of Oliver Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen was one of the most influential religious artists and composers of the twentieth century. Writing in a time dominated by cynicism and abstraction, the irrepressible optimism of his...
I just can’t stop! Addiction: the hidden secret
Drinking, eating, shopping, taking drugs, reading porn, having sex, going in and out of unhealthy relationships, working… what do you do when you can't give it up? Compulsively ‘act out'...
Living Lightly in God’s World – part 1
Living lightly in God's world 1 As the climate changes and creation groans, what resources can the Christian faith give us for living hopefully and differently on planet earth? Is the Bible part of...
Re-enchanting Christianity: faith for today
Re-enchanting Christianity: Faith for today An exploration of how Christianity, once deconstructed, can become credible again – not by returning to some lost innocence, but by discovering a...
Speaker(s): Dave TomlinsonThe Gospel According To The USA – Questioning America In A Year Of Election
The Gospel according to the USA: Questioning America in a year of election With an eye on the passing of US global hegemony, David Dark discusses the battle for hearts and minds in the presidential...
Praying Naked
Many of us feel guilty that we don't pray enough, correctly, or effectively. Sometimes, we don't really understand the whole idea. When we strip it down to its simplest and most basic elements,...
Speaker(s): Brian McLarenPostmodern and Postcolonial
The conversation about the emerging church is only one part of a larger discussion that is taking place around the world. Where the west focuses on culture and truth, the south looks at culture and...
Speaker(s): Brian McLarenFinding Meaning in ‘Lost’
Is Lost where we find spirituality in today's culture? Does a message for the church lie somewhere deep within the island? One of TV's most popular shows, Lost is a glorious mixture of the...
35th Greenbelt Communion Service
We 'throw those curtains wide' when the sun shines; we mope when it doesn't. Pouring energy and life our lives, God shines on us, like the great sun itself. Processing fromt he north, south, east and...
Rediscovering Christian Faith as a Way of Life
Rediscovering Christian faith as a way of life In the hands of institutions, the way of Jesus becomes a list of rules or a system of beliefs instead of the vibrant and world transforming way of life...
Speaker(s): Brian McLarenGoing East – The Church You Never Knew
We're told that it was 18th- and 19th-century missionaries who took Christianity to Japan and China. But a much older, and usually secret, history challenges our Eurocentric picture. Anders...
A Jubilee for First World Debtors
Consumers in Anglo-American economies are engulfed by credit/debt. Poor borrowers and homeowners, as well as businesses, find themselves deserted by the ‘guardians of the nation's finances' --...
Speaker(s): Ann Pettifor