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Mixed Blessings

Sarfraz Manzoor is a British Pakistani Muslim. His wife Bridget is British Scottish Christian. In this revealing, surprising and entertaining conversation Sarfraz and Bridget reflect honestly on the...
Speaker(s): Sarfraz Manzoor

What’s Wrong With Poverty?

What are the metaphors that shape our understanding of what poverty is; what are the good and less good ways of engaging poverty; and why do many interventions to alleviate poverty actually make it...
Speaker(s): Sam Wells

The End Of Prison As We Know It?

What do we think about a prison system that heaves with misery? A system which costs on average £43,000 per prisoner per year? A system that seems unable to lower reoffending rates? If our prisons...
Speaker(s): Sara Hyde

On Friendship

When Tennyson met Gladstone they bickered over who had most loved their mutual friend Hallam, the subject of Tennyson's poem In Memoriam. From friendship expressed by letter to affection recalled...
Speaker(s): Sarah Perry

Sustaining Faithful Activism: From D-Locks To Divestment

Siobhan and Ruth will share their journeys in Christian climate activism. Come and discuss how we can help our church be the prophetic voice the earth needs it to be. Ruth helps run Christian...
Speaker(s): Ruth Jarman and Siobhan Grimes

Why Can’t My Dog Take Communion?

After studying environmental ethics, Ruth wrote her debut novel, Enemy of the Earth. Exploring the surprising parallels between environmental activism and Christianity, it mines her faith journeys...
Speaker(s): Ruth Ruderham

Food And Faith

How to eat well in a hungry world and integrate our food into our spirituality. Ruth is a community activist, Christian, academic, eco-warrior, mum, author, veg grower, wife and pig keeper rolled...
Speaker(s): Ruth Valerio

When Certainty Fails

Poetry seeks to find words of meaning when other words fail. Pádraig Ó Tuama's poetry explores faith, gay identity, conflict and story, and intersperses it with anecdote, warmth and humour to...

Let Us Remember: Stories Of Peace From The First World War

The witness of peacemakers in WW1 should prompt us to question how we resist and challenge war in 2014. What better way to commemorate the ‘war to end all wars'? Campaigner, educator and...
Speaker(s): Pat Gaffney

What Did Brian Ever Do For Us?

When Monty Python's Life of Brian opened in 1979, the Bishop of Southwark accused the Pythons of blasphemy to get their ‘thirty pieces of silver'. 35 years on, Richard Burridge, in conversation...

Good Myth, Bad Myth

Myth takes us on a journey through literature, social theory, migration politics and the environmental imagination. Beyond ‘myth-busting' and telling tales of the oppressed, how can the...
Speaker(s): Naomi Millner

Atheists: The Origin Of The Species

Where does atheism come from? Nick explains the origin and direction of Western unbelief. Who were the first modern atheists and why did they reject God so angrily? Did Darwin kill God? And is...
Speaker(s): Nick Spencer

Seeking Sanctuary, Sexuality And Staying Safe

A discussion about the problems faced by the LGBT community leading to direct actions at strategic, community and interpersonal levels to address the injustice and oppression within the asylum...
Speaker(s): North East Gay Asylum Group

The Authority Of Experience And What The Gospel Has To Say About Real Bodies, People, Events And Trauma

What The Gospel Has To Say About Real Bodies, People, Events And Trauma How a Christian community responded to school shootings, the Trayvon Martin murder, and gay suicides. Nadia is the founding...
Speaker(s): Nadia Bolz-Weber

Like Father, Like Daughter: The Tutu Legacy

Using prerecorded video footage of her father Desmond Tutu (following his Templeton Prize award), hear Mpho reflect on her father's words and life with Prof. Richard Burridge. Mpho is an Episcopal...
Speaker(s): Mpho Tutu