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 McLarenPraying 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 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 PettiforLive By Gandhi/Learn By Google: Faith In A Digital Democracy 1
Digital media culture has transformed the way ideas and information are gathered and shared, but what does this mean for faith in the 21st century? What does religion look like now? Barry Taylor is...
The Beatification Of Enoch Powell
What influence did Enoch Powell really have in the unexpected Tory election victory of 1970? Did he dare to say what others thought, or change the climate of opinion? 40 years on has he been proved...
Conversations with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is famous for writing the Sherlock Holmes adventures. But while these gave him wealth, this literary man sought paradise in speaking with the dead. His friend Harry Houdini...
Speaker(s): Simon ParkeDark Eden
Eden is a planet without a star, which is why it's dark. It isn't completely dark though. There is life there, powered by the planet's own heat. And that life gives out light. This is a story...
What To Do While You’re Waiting For Paradise
How do writers motivate themselves when they know their novel might never be published? What to do while waiting to hear from agents? Does self-publishing ruin credibility? Emerging writer...
Where Words Can Go but Not Return
Philip Gross reads from his latest poetry collection, Deep Field (shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2012), which movingly charts his elderly father's journey into deep aphasia and deafness,...
Pairidaeza: the Old Persian for Paradise
Drawing on her memories of life in Iran, Mimi Khalvati's poems are full of love and longing, lost maternal Edens and paradisal gardens. Her readings will interweave the classical forms of Persian...
Every Second, The Messiah: A Performed Reading from The Late Walter Benjamin
The Late Walter Benjamin juxtaposes the life and death of the German-Jewish Marxist intellectual Walter Benjamin with the grinding reality of a working-class London council estate in post-war...
Itch: A Reading
The tale of a curious schoolboy searching out all the elements in the periodic table, the story features missing eyebrows, schoolbag arsenic, and a whole host of dangerous situations. Find out the...
Speaker(s): Simon MayoCommunion
The poet Denise Levertov, talks of saving paradise when she says: “we have only begun to love the earth. We have only begun to imagine the fullness of life, how it might be to live as siblings with...