Speakers

Malcolm Guite

Malcolm Guite is the author of numerous bestselling poetry collections and anthologies. An accomplished singer-songwriter, poet and academic, he is a Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. Malcolm has a particular interest in the imagination as a truth-bearing faculty and continues to reflect deeply on how poetry can stimulate and re-awaken our prayer life. He writes the weekly Poet's Corner column in the Church Times.

His books include David's Crown (Canterbury Press 2021) and Lifting the Veil: Imagination and the Kingdom of God (Canterbury Press 2022).

Sessions

Who knows this agony? A reflection on psalms 88 and 89

Rachel Mann

Rachel Mann is a parish priest, writer, speaker and broadcaster, with a particular interest in the relationship between popular culture and faith. 

Her books include My Theology: Spectres of God (Darton Longman and Todd 2021), The Gospel of Eve (Darton Longman and Todd 2020) and Love's Mysteries: The Body, Grief, Precariousness and God (Canterbury Press 2020).

Sessions

Precious and Holy: Preaching the Sacred Wounds of Christ Today

Pádraig Ó Tuama

Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet, theologian and broadcaster who has worked in reconciliation in Ireland for many years, including as Leader of the Corrymeela Community.

He is the author of In the Shelter (Hodder & Stoughton 2016), Daily Prayer from Corrymeela (Canterbury Press 2017) and, with Glenn Jordan, of Borders and Belonging (Canterbury Press 2021).

Sessions

Viruses, Laments and Curiosities: Genesis and contemporary conversations – a poet’s perspective

Angela Tilby

Sessions

The Last Gospel

Sam Wells

Sam Wells is Vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and a widely-known preacher, pastor, writer, broadcaster, and theologian. Sam is also Visiting Professor of Christian Ethics at King’s College, London.

He has published over 30 books, including academic studies, explorations of social mission, liturgy and Anglican faith, and four collections of sermons. His latest are Finding Abundance in Scarcity (Canterbury Press 2021) and A Cross in the Heart of God (Canterbury Press 2020).

Sessions

Thou Spreadst a Table in the Presence of My Enemies

Lucy Winkett

Lucy Winkett is one of today's most outstanding Christian communicators and is renowned as a preacher and a broadcaster; she frequently gives Radio 4's Thought for the Day. She has been Rector of St James' Piccadilly since 2010 and was previously Precentor of St Paul's Cathedral. She is Theological Adviser to Theos.

She is the author of Reading the Bible with your Feet (Canterbury Press 2021) and Our Sound is Our Wound (Bloomsbury 2009).

Sessions

‘Noli Me Tangere’: Preaching Resurrection while touching the Void