Attendees of The Greenbelt Festival 2010 are spoilt for choice when it comes to thought-provoking, intelligent and revelatory Talks. Firm Festival favourites like John Bell, Peter Tatchell, and Lucy Winkett appear alongside newcomers Clare Short MP, theologian Stanley Hauerwas, writer and psychologist Oliver James and Richard Rohr.
Of course, there's plenty more to entertain and challenge throughout the Talks programme, so have a look through and see what interests you...
Other highlights: John Smith | Tom Sine | Karen Ward | Mark Yaconelli
Richard Rohr
Fr Richard Rohr is a Franciscan priest of the New Mexico Province. He lives in a hermitage behind his Franciscan community - the Center for...
Kate Coleman
Kate Coleman is associate pastor of The Regeneration Centre in Birmingham, and a former President of the Baptist Union. Coleman was the first...
Clare Short
Clare Short was MP for Birmingham Ladywood 1983-2010. She was Secretary of State for International Development 1997-2003. She resigned...
Stanley Hauerwas
Stanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at the Divinity School of Duke University. Though he is often...
Mark Yaconelli
Mark Yaconelli is an author, speaker, and retreat leader. He is the Co-Founder of Triptykos, a public action program for engaged compassion...
Oliver James
Born in 1953, he went on to complete a degree in Social Anthropology at Cambridge University and trained as a child clinical psychologist at...
Gustavo Parajon
*Pastor, First Baptst Church Managua until July1, 2010 *Founding President, CEPAD, Nicaraguan Council of Evangelical Churches *President,...
Kate Pickett
Kate Pickett is Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York and a National Institute for Health Research Career Scientist. She studied...
Tom Sine
Tom is hospitality guy at the mustard seed house in Seattle. He enjoys cooking food from all over the world for friends from all over the world....
David Morrissey
David Morrissey is best known as one of Britain’s busiest actors. He’s appeared in the acclaimed dramas State of Play, The Deal (RTS best...
Sami Awad
Sami Awad, a Palestinian Christian living in Bethlehem. He is the Executive Director of Holy Land Trust (HLT), a Palestinian not-for-profit...
Karen Ward
Karen Ward is an Episcopal priest and the Abbess of Church of the Apostles, Seattle (www.apostleschurch.org) an intentional, sacramental community...
Peter Tatchell
For over 40 years, Peter Tatchell has been campaigning for human rights, democracy and global justice. Describing himself as driven by a love...
Abdul-Rehman Malik
Abdul-Rehman Malik is London-based journalist and educator. A contributing editor at Q-News - a leading Muslim current affairs magazine, he...
Abe Hayeem
Abe Hayeem is an Iraqi Jewish architect living in London. He is peace activist and founder member of Architects & Planners for Justice in Palestine....
Andrew Rumsey
Andrew Rumsey is Vicar of Gipsy Hill in South London. A seasoned Greenbelt speaker and performer, his latest book Strangely Warmed (published...
Andy Dreitcer
Andy Dreitcer--Director of Spiritual Formation and Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality at Claremont School of Theology in Southern...
Bishop Tim Stevens
Bishop Tim Stevens was raised in a rural vicarage in Essex and went to Chigwell School. After leaving school he spent a year in Zambia with...
Brian Klug
Dr. Brian Klug is Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Benet’s Hall, Oxford, and Hon. Fellow of the Parkes Institute for the Study...
Bruce Kent
Bruce Kent is a life-long peace campaigner, former Catholic parish priest and university chaplain. He has now retired from the Priesthood, but...
Bruce Stanley
Bruce Stanley ran away from the circus to become a life coach and run embody.co.uk, an umbrella for creative project development. These days...
Bulelwa Ngantweni-Hewitt (Mandi)
Bulelwa (Mandi) Hewitt is head of Public Relations at Umthombo Street Children. Bulelwa grew up on a rubbish dump in East London, South Africa...
Cole Moreton
Cole Moreton is an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster. He writes for the Guardian, the Sunday Times Magazine and the Mail on Sunday,...
Dave Andrews
Dave and Ange and their family have lived and worked in intentional Christian communities with marginalised people in Asia and Australia for...
Dilwar Hussein
Dilwar Hussain is Head of the Policy Research Centre, based at the Islamic Foundation. His research interests include Islam in the modern world...
Donald Reeves
Donald Reeves is the director and founder of the Soul of Europe. Working in Bosnia and Kosovo bringing people together there to realise Nelson...
Eliacin Rosario-Cruz
Born in Puerto Rico moved to the Pacific Northwest/ husband and father/ rabble rouser/ organizer/ communitarian/ cultivator/ provocatuer/ grassroot...
Fiona Joseph
Fiona Joseph is a writer of educational textbooks and online resources, short fiction and biography. She is a recent graduate of the National...
Frank Rogers
Frank Roger, Professor of Spiritual Life and Narrative Pedagogy at Claremont School of Theology in Southern California. Frank's research and...
Gareth Higgins
Gareth Higgins a northern Irish writer, film critic and broadcaster, and Executive Director of the Wild Goose Festival, a Greenbelt-inspired...
Giles Fraser
Giles Fraser has been Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral since September 2009. He is a columnist for the Church Times and The Guardian...
Ian Mobsby
Ian Mobsby is an Ordained Priest Missioner for the Moot Community, an emerging, new monastic and fresh expression of Church in the City of London....
Ilan Pappe
Ilan Pappe, born in Haifa in 1954 is currently a Chair in the Department of History, in the University of Exeter and a co-director of the Exeter...
Janey Lee Grace
Janey Lee Grace from Steve Wright in the Afternoon (BBC Radio 2) is the author of No1 best selling book 'Imperfectly Natural Woman’ She has...
John Swinton
John Swinton holds the chair in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom. He is also an...
John Bell
John Bell was born within smelling distance of Johnny Walker's distillery in Kilmarnock and presently lives within smelling distance of Tenant's...
John Smith
Dr John Smith is the founder and Executive Director of Concern Australia and the founding President of God’s Squad Christian Motorcycle Club...
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is a leader of the new monastic movement, co-founder of the Rutba House community, and associate minister at St. John's...
Katherine Venn
Katherine Venn was born in South London, spent her twenties working in publishing and then in 2009 decamped to the fens to study at UEA for...
Kathy Watson
athy Watson is a biographer. Her first book, The Crossing (Hodder Headline, 2000), told the story of Matthew Webb, the first man to swim the...
Keith Skene
Dr Keith Skene is a writer, lecturer, scientist and a former Rhodes Scholar. He is based at the prestigious College of Life Sciences, University...
Kerry Anthony
Kerry Anthony has been working in homeless services in a range of roles for over 12 years in the UK and Ireland. Her area of particular interest...
Kester Brewin
Kester Brewin is a part-time teacher, freelance writer and author. His first book 'The Complex Christ' was hailed as one of the most important...
Laurence Freeman
Laurence Freeman is a Benedictine monk and teaches meditation in the Christian tradition around the world. Close to his heart is the integration...
Lucy Winkett
Lucy Winkett is Canon Precentor of St Paul's Cathedral in London. She is a founding advisor of the public theology thinktank Theos, a columnist...
Maggi Dawn
Maggi Dawn is an author, based at Cambridge University where she is Chaplain and Fellow in Theology at Robinson College. She is an occasional...
Mandy Marshall
Mandy Marshall is co-founder and co-Director of Restored, a Christian organisation aimed at transforming relationships and ending violence against...
Mark Vernon
Mark Vernon is a writer, journalist, author and faculty member at The School of Life. He began his professional life as a priest in the Church...
Michael Northcott
Michael Northcott is Professor of Ethics in New College in the University of Edinburgh, a trustee of Traidcraft, and an Episcopal Priest. He...
Nicola Slee
Nicola Slee is a feminist theologian and poet who has written extensively in the fields of Christian feminist theology, liturgy, spirituality...
Nigel Varndell
Nigel Varndell first went to the Occupied Palestinian Territories ten years ago and has been going back every year since. He has talked with...
Padraig O Tuama
Pádraig lives in Belfast where he works in chaplaincy with young people, as well as community work. He has worked with the Corrymeela Community...
Paul Badham
Paul Badham was a student at Oxford, Cambridge, and Birmingham and was a Curate in two Anglican parishes in Birmingham. Since 1973 he has...
Paula Clifford
Dr Paula Clifford currently leads Christian Aid's strategy on climate change and is head of Church Communications for the organisation. She...
Peter Graystone
Peter Graystone works for Church Army, where his job is to create new Christian communities attractive to those who have never been to church,...
Peter Oborne
Peter Oborne is a journailst and political commentator. A Daily Mail columnist and author of The Rise of Political Lying, he is particularly...
Peter Sanders
Peter Sanders began his career in the 1960s as one of London’s leading photographers of rock musicians. His pictures of Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix,...
Rebecca Cain
Rebecca Cain is a Career coach based near Ilkley Moor in West Yorkshire. After spending 12 years in the Corporate HR World, she went freelance...
Richard Chartres
Richard John Carew Chartres became the 132nd Bishop of London in November 1995. He was educated at Hertford Grammar School and studied history...
Rosalyn Clare
Rosalyn Clare is passionate about seeing people develop and change. She escaped the corporate rat race to backpack around the world. Rosalyn...
Sarah Edwards
Sarah currently leads Health Poverty Action's policy and campaigns team. She has previously worked for Jubilee Debt Campaign, Anti-Slavery International,...
Simon Mayo
Simon Mayo is presenter of the drivetime show on Radio 2. He has been working for the BBC since 1981 and presents "Kermode and Mayo's Film Review"...
Simon Parke
Simon Parke was a priest in the Church of England for twenty years before opting for fresh adventures.He worked in a supermarket for three years,...
Solomuzi Mabuza
Solomuzi Mabuza is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa. Currently, he is employed by the Ujamaa Centre...
Sue Mayfield
Sue Mayfield is a Cheltenham-based writer best known for her award-winning novels for teenagers, several of which deal with themes of bereavement...
Tim Mayfield
Tim Mayfield was alerted to the Palestinian issue by attending seminars by Elias Chacour at Greenbelt 2003. He followed the Palestinian thread...
Tom Hewitt
Tom Hewitt first visited South Africa in 1990 on an ant-apartheid trip with the Amos Trust. He was introduced to street children in Maputo during...
Trevor Adams
Trevor Adams is a Lecturer in Mental Health at the University of Surrey and specialises in Dementia Care. He has written over 50 papers and...
