The Israeli Society and The Occupation
Gideon Levy speaks about the 45-year Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, how it effects life in Israel and the ways it has been justified. How can such a brutal occupation last in a...
The Road to Palestinian Freedom: The rise of Palestinian nonviolence resistance and the perspectives of the future
Nonviolence is often considered non-struggle, weakness, submission, or passivity. Mustafa Barghouti presents an alternative, speaking about the growth of nonviolent resistance in Palestine. Mustafa...
Naked Men of the Bible
What's the story about nakedness and men in the Bible? Why did Noah lose the plot when his son saw him exposed? Who was that strange young naked man at the end of Mark? What does the text imply...
Palestinian Children Behind Bars
Yearly, Israel arrests and tortures an average of 700 Palestinian children between 13 and 18 years of age, causing fear, deprivation, pain and isolation. The YMCA help Palestinian children and youth...
Prosperity Unto Death
The unequal distribution of power and wealth prevents the world's riches from being protected and shared, and enables the gross injustice of poverty to continue. Suzanne Matale from the Zambian...
Reborn on the Fourth of July: The Challenge of Faith, Patriotism and Conscience
The history of soldier saints and patriot pacifists can inform our contemporary understanding of war and its conduct. So too can an understanding of the legal and theological frameworks that surround...
Reshaping Christian history for reader and viewer
Diarmaid MacCulloch's History of Christianity refocused readers and viewers on that fact that our faith is an Eastern religion. Here he discusses how its centre might easily have been Baghdad...
Holy Text, Holy Land:
The Book of Joshua seems to say the conquest of Canaan was commanded by God, to be achieved by violence. Would the Creator of all really want the slaughter of indigenous peoples? Can we read these...
Hope. Futures. Experiences.
There's a book in the Old Testament called Jeremiah. In it, we read that God gives us a hope and a future. So what sort of hope and future do you think you have? Come and talk about that and hear...
Lazarus Come Forth
John Dear reflects on the warmaking which is destroying the world, and the creative nonviolence which offers a way out. He considers Jesus' nonviolence which is at the heart of Christianity, and...
Leading Transformatively: The Woman at the Well
Leadership can emerge from surprising circumstances. The Samaritan Woman is popularly considered an outcast and seldom thought of in leadership terms. However, at a time when the leadership of women...
Life Lessons from The Wonderbox
What might we learn from the Ancient Greeks about the different varieties of love, and how did we become so obsessed with the idea of romantic love? How might a 17th-century Japanese Zen poet inspire...
Speaker(s): Roman KrznaricFrom the Lost Paradise of Paraguay with Love
Margaret's village of Santa Maria in Paraguay is in an area known as “The Lost Paradise” because of the destruction of the old Jesuit missions (cf. the film The Mission). Margaret has lived...
Speaker(s): Margaret HebblethwaiteSaving Paradise: Water
Christians are baptised into the paradise garden with its great rivers of justice. How are we today to understand the meaning of water for the incarnation of justice and mercy in our lives, for...
The New Christianity
Peter Owen-Jones has been described as one of the most radical priests of his generation. In this talk he explores aspects of the changing religious identity and some of the more difficult areas that...