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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

A Political Theology Of Climate Change

The UN and the UK government are failing to mitigate climate changing practices. This is because they think of the earth as capital resource, not divine creation. Reaffirming the earth as God's...
Speaker(s): Michael Northcott

George Herbert: Poems That Can Seriously Damage Your Atheism

George Herbert, a 17th-century courtier and priest, who died at 33 having written only one book of poems, still grips the imagination. What do his poems have to say about life, faith and the church...

The Four-Fold Path To Forgiving – The Book Of Forgiving

Written jointly with her father Archbishop Desmond Tutu and based on their own experience, The Book of Forgiving is an inspiring and practical guide to forgiveness; learning to let go of resentment;...
Speaker(s): Mpho Tutu

How To Be A Human

Matt Haig talks to Martin Wroe about his novel The Humans (‘Hilarious' – Guardian). In particular he will discuss how looking at the human species through the eyes of an extra-terrestrial...
Speaker(s): Matt Haig

The Depressives Of The Bible

25% of us suffer from mental health problems. Mercifully the Bible doesn't shy away from depicting real people with their real struggles. So what can those of us with depression, anxiety and other...
Speaker(s): Matt Page

Voices From Syria

Four stories, four choices. More than three million people have fled the crisis in Syria into neighbouring countries. Actors share real life stories from refugees and the difficult decisions they...

From Survival To Redevelopment

Leaders of Manchester Aid to Kosovo share examples of their 15-year experience supporting recovery from the Balkans ethnic cleansing campaign. MaK projects include human rights, education, art, sport...
Speaker(s): Manchester Aid to Kosovo

Travelling Heavy

Christianity doesn't travel light. It is weighed down with history, much of it shameful. What would it mean to deal with the burdensome history of Christendom and imagine our way into a lighter...
Speaker(s): Marika Rose

I Am Looking To Get To The Bottom Of This

I Am Looking To Get To The Bottom Of This From Soviet science to freak weather, lab experiments to the search for extraterrestrials, these poems draw a link between poet and scientist. We posit a...
Speaker(s): Martha Sprackland

It_s About Time

Christian Aid is proud to bring prophet and protesting powerhouse Lidy Nacpil from the Philippines to Greenbelt. Lidy challenges us to join the urgent struggle of the movemetns in the global south in...
Speaker(s): Lidy Nacpil

The Crisis Of Religion In The UK: History, Causes, Consequences

Church attendance in freefall; ‘no religion' set to become the majority identity; hardline minorities dominating religious groups. What has gone wrong with religion in the UK, where are there...
Speaker(s): Linda Woodhead

No Planet B

Climate change means longer summers, right? But when we look at the poorest communities suffering worst from climate chaos, we see the injustice, the threat, the promise and the urgent need to fight...
Speaker(s): Loretta Minghella

Into The Lions’ Den Or Through The Wardrobe Door? _ A Christian Writer’s Adventures In Present Day Publishing

What is it like to fit into the mainstream of publishing while writing from a faith-based perspective? Julia Golding describes her own experience of balancing beliefs while remaining relevant to all...
Speaker(s): Julia Golding

Street Lamps For Stage Lights

When Camden Council criminalised busking in 2013, the Keep Streets Live Campaign teamed up with Mark Thomas, Bill Bailey and Billy Bragg to form the Citizen's Kazoo Orchestra in an act of musical...
Speaker(s): Keep Streets Live Campaign