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Are You Listening?

When we're supporting someone through a difficult time, we may want to 'do something' to help them. Often, the most helpful thing we can offer is deeply attentive listening. Sounds easy? You'd be...
Speaker(s): Kathryn Mannix

Power, Betrayal and Liberation: L’Arche after Jean Vanier

What do you do when a 'living saint' uses his authority to manipulate and abuse people? How do you rage, grieve, and find something more beautiful than before? Members of the L'Arche Communities of...
Speaker(s): Lucy Winkett, Richard Keagan-Bull, Hazel Bradley

It’s Not Me… It’s You.

How come so many of us have broken up with church? We take part less and less often. Or not at all. It used to be part of our lives… until it wasn't. What's your story? Why did you call time on the...
Speaker(s): Marika Rose, Dave Tomlinson

The Cost of Living

No mention of the FTSE, few statistics and little about the long-running, constantly re-scripted Westminster farce. But a sideways look at why we can't afford what we want, why we want what we can't...
Speaker(s): John Bell

Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful

Our legal system often feels like it only works for the rich and powerful - for those who have the means to use the courts to enforce their will and defend their interests. But we can fight back....
Speaker(s): Jolyon Maugham

Because I Don’t Know What You Mean and What You Don’t

oin Josie Long, in conversation with Jo Browning Wroe, about her debut collection of short stories that touch on everything from parenthood to the pandemic. Following on from her earlier stand-up...
Speaker(s): Josie Long

Asylum Speakers

Hear the voices that too often go unheard - from the humans behind the headlines and the political rhetoric. Podcaster, motivational speaker and author Jaz O'Hara's work amplifies the stories and...
Speaker(s): Jasmin O'Hara

Incarnation – The Great Denial

The Apostle's Creed manages to squeeze thirty three years of Jesus life into a comma separating the Virgin Mary from Pontius Pilate. St Paul speaks of the 'Gospel of Christ', but how much did he know...
Speaker(s): John Bell

Fight the Power

Just a few years older than Greenbelt, Greenpeace were named after a small boat that set sail in 1971 to stop a US nuclear weapons testing off Alaska. Today, they are still fearlessly committed to...
Speaker(s): Greenpeace

Charity Begins At Home?

As the UK's finances struggle, cuts to the government's overseas development spending and increasing demand on foodbanks, debt centres and other services in the UK are pitted against one another....

In conversation with Jack Monroe

Jack Monroe is a food writer and anti-poverty campaigner. She has joined us at Greenbelt twice before. With rocketing food inflation and energy prices, more households than ever are struggling to...
Speaker(s): Jack Monroe

Theology and the cost of living crisis

Jayme and Susie from Sarum College present a fresh and thought-provoking workshop on Sabbath and Jubilee. Prepare to be theologically inspired to think and act differently in the midst of our modern...

Profits vs Prophets? How we make polluters pay

The fossil fuel industry is making millions every day, while people in climate-vulnerable countries pay the bill. How can the prophetic voice of the church challenge the profiteering of the fossil...

Robot Souls

In her new book, Robot Souls, Eve looks at what we've been deliberately leaving out of the design of AI. It turns out that all that 'junk code' left on the floor contains the very essence of our...
Speaker(s): Eve Poole

A country where poverty does not exist

Poverty in the UK is an avoidable, solvable problem - but it's one we have failed to fix for far too long. As a society we must do better. Former prime minister Gordon Brown will talk about our moral...
Speaker(s): Gordon Brown