The Simple Life: good news for God’s creation
We often hear the phrase, “Live simply that others may simply live”, but how do we do that? What does that mean in a society that constantly encourages us to get more? How can we learn the art of...
Speaker(s): Ruth ValerioThese Three Remain: Faith, Hope… and the Charity Sector
The charitable sector has become professionalised with recognised qualifications, not completely laugh-out-loud salaries and a key role providing services for local and national authorities. Is this...
Giving up God for Lent: A New Kind of Christian is A New Kind of Atheist
Atheism for Lent is a six-week course designed to enrich our faith by acknowledging our experiences of God's absence. Find out what the course is all about, how it works, and why it suggests that a...
Paradise for People with Dementia
Paradise for people with dementia is to be treated as human beings. The session explains dementia and outlines the dominant approach: ‘person-centred care'. While it is valuable Christians need...
Paradise Postponed
If church is meant to be a foretaste of paradise, what is it like when you feel you're in Hell? Three women who have suffered, and continue to suffer mental health difficulties speak on church,...
School of Life: How to Find Fulfilling Work
Speaker(s): Roman Krznaric
School of Life: How To Treat Your Nature Deficit
First Steps Through The Menopause
A beginner's guide to the menopause: what it is, what to expect, and what help is available from conventional medicine, complementary therapies and self-help/lifestyle changes. First Steps Through...
Forgiveness, Justice and the elusive Quest for Reconciliation.
The wounds of history which result from war and conflict run deep. They feed and draw from the deep alienation at the heart of our fractured communities. Is there a better world where those who are...
Finding Paradise: The personal journey of a right-wing religious extremist
Hear the story of someone raised with Christian Zionist end-time theology and an ultra-literal interpretation of scripture. Someone who has been saved from a damaging theology, which was arrogant,...
Palestine/Israel: Moving from separation and exclusion to sharing and equality
Palestine/Israel is in desperate need of a bold vision that challenges a status quo shaped by ethno-religious exclusivity and exclusion. After facing hard facts about the reality on the ground, comes...
The Beauty in the Beast
Hugh Warwick once argued that the hedgehog was the most important creature on the planet but he was beset by others who claimed that their own particular species were just as significant. So began a...
Wired Worship & Virtual Virtues
How do the internet and social media reflect our spiritual quest? How are they shaping us today? Can we uphold our desire to be moral people in a virtual world with less concrete consequences? How...
Speaker(s): Vicky BeechingDomesticating Monsters: Why the Church Doesn’t Need Missions
In the current state of missions the ‘other' has disappeared. Attempts to salvage the ideas behind missions have led to the end of distinction and ultimately the end of thinking through the...
Making Sense of Videogames
Videogames offer new ways of telling our stories, but reviews suggest they are largely about entertainment and violence. Andy Robertson helps gamers and non-gamers make sense of the format, to find a...
Speaker(s): Jousting with Andy Robertson