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The War in Ukraine

From the initial shock and panic, to the present and potential future, join us for an insightful conversation about the fallout from the war in Ukraine. With award-winning Guardian foreign...
Speaker(s): Pickwell Foundation, Luke Harding

God as… Uncontrolling Love

Many people are confused, deconstructing, or walking away from God. The reasons for departure are often linked to particular views of God. Many are told God allows evil, is uninvolved, is partial to...
Speaker(s): Thomas Jay Oord

Feed Your Beasts

Twenty years after reparative therapies and exorcisms to cure him of gay devils, Pádraig Ó Tuama began exploring these experiences through poetry. Pádraig will share poems and stories that feed...
Speaker(s): Pádraig Ó Tuama

Surviving the Middle-Class Church

Sharon Jagger and Alex Fry share stories from their research into the experiences of working-class clergy (and, by extension, their congregation members) in the Church of England. In light of their...
Speaker(s): Trussell, Anna Alls, Dr Sharon Jagger, Dr Alex Fry

Trans Evangelical, Really

Historian, evangelical and trans woman Rebecca Jane Morgan unpacks the history of evangelical transphobia and argues that the raw material is there for a genuinely loving evangelical response to the...
Speaker(s): Rebecca Jane Morgan

Banking On It

Around 1 million people in the UK don't have a bank account. Join the JustMoney Movement as they share how communities are organising to meet this need, what the role of credit union is, and what...
Speaker(s): Trussell, JustMoney Movement, The Pentecostal Credit Union (PCU)

Communion: Dreaming of Home

If you were forced to flee your home, what would you take with you? Photographs for memories? Documents for identity? Food for sustenance? Almost certainly you would carry with you the hope of a...
Speaker(s): Festival Communion, Daoud Nassar

URC: LGBT+ Christians are more than welcome to come as you are

Lead photo: Revd Dr John Bradbury speaks to the Open Table community in Cambridge in 2019. A minister of the church where Open Table Cambridge began, he became the General Secretary of the URC later...

Hala Hanina

Hala Hanina, a social and political activist from Gaza, left Gaza a few days before the beginning of the Israeli genocide over Gaza, she is a PhD researcher in politics and sociology and has led a...

Tiff Minson

Stand-up comedy/comedic storytelling, exploring what it is to be a young adult in a world that seems like it's going to end soon, an English daughter of a Northern Irish woman studying in Belfast,...

HUSHWING

'The songwriting duo, HUSHWING, is whole-heartedly welded together by their adoration for travel, outdoors and one another. Having torn pages from Bon Iver's lyrical wisdom, Jon Bellion's...

Isabelle Norwood

Hello! My name is Isabelle Norwood, and I am a recent music graduate specializing in electroacoustic composition. I am interested in transforming field recordings/ found recordings into new immersive...

Burntwood

Burntwood combine inventive songwriting with expansive atmospherics. They incorporate elements of post-rock, americana and alternative. The London four-piece are set to release their debut record in...

Man-Sized Creature

What happens when you put a dance music producer and a visual artist/folk singer in the same room? The result, in the case of Man Sized Creature, is not what you'd expect: a dynamic and evocative...

James Pendle Poet

I perform poetic monologues in which a character wrestles with an issue that may be environmental, political, psychological or religious. Many of the poems draw on ideas from the Bible (I have a...