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The Quiet Revival PodcastThe Bible in politics and culture with Chine McDonald and Belle TindallIn this episode The Quiet Revival Podcast, Dr Belle Tindall – writer and podcaster for Seen & Unseen – and director of Theos, Chine McDonald, join Andrew and Rhiannon to discuss the increase in spiritual interest in England and Wales, and where the Bible fits into that. Together, they discuss the popularity of alternative spiritualities and the evolving public perception of the Bible – with 32 per cent of 18–24-year-olds now agreeing with the statement: ‘I’d be happy to be seen reading a Bible in public.’ Hit play to discover why we need nuanced discussions of Scripture within the polit...
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Seen & Unseen Aloud20th October 2025: a Wild Belle, Sarah Mullally and Defending our GirlsIn this episode, Jonathan Evens takes us to Union Chapel where Natalie Bergman's soul-soaked set turned personal tragedy into communal celebration; George Pitcher evokes historical precedent for why Sarah Mullally’s appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury is about more than just breaking the stained-glass ceiling and Belle Tindall passionately suggests that “Defending our girls” is less about safety, more about scapegoating (please be aware of potentially triggering content in this last article). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Re-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Conversion - Lamorna AshIf you found this conversation interesting, Seen & Unseen, the creators of Re-Enchanting, offers thousands of articles exploring how the Christian faith helps us understand the modern world. Discover more here: www.seenandunseen.com. Lamorna Ash is an award-winning writer and journalist, she’s the author of Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town and the brand new Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever: A New Generation’s Search for Religion, both of which have caught a huge amount of attention. Lamorna tells Belle and Justin about her tour of the UK - why her curio...
2025-06-111h 04Re-EnchantingRe-enchanting... The end of the world - Alex EvansIf you found this conversation interesting, Seen & Unseen, the creators of Re-Enchanting, offers thousands of articles exploring how the Christian faith helps us understand the modern world. Discover more here: www.seenandunseen.com Alex Evans is the founder and Executive Director of Larger Us - a community of change-makers seeking to bridge divides and bring people together. Alex has previously worked as a think tank researcher, as a special adviser to two cabinet ministers, in the UN Secretary-General’s office and as a consultant for organisations from Oxfam to the US National Intelligence Council.It’s given...
2025-06-041h 05Re-Enchanting Re-enchanting... God & suffering - Esther Maria MagnisEsther Maria Magnis is a German writer whose book ‘With or Without Me’ is a memoir of her journey with faith and the perception of reality. With unflinching honesty Esther takes us through her childhood and adolescence as she, along with her brother and sister, deals with the grief of her father’s cancer diagnosis, her prayers, and her journey through the loss of faith, into materialism, self-deconstruction and finally the turn back to the idea of God. Justin and Belle talk to Esther about her raw account of coming to terms wi...
2025-04-021h 05Re-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Experiential Spirituality - Tyler StatonIf you found this conversation interesting, Seen & Unseen, the creators of Re-Enchanting, offers thousands of articles exploring how the Christian faith helps us understand the modern world. Discover more here: www.seenandunseen.com Tyler Staton is the Lead Pastor of Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon and the head of Prayer 24/7, USA. He's also the author of three best-selling books: Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools, Searching for Enough, and The Familiar Stranger.In this episode of Re-Enchanting, Belle talks with Tyler about Christianity as a source of experiential spirituality, our lives being 'the main event' and the mystery of the Holy Spirit. For more from Tyler: https://www.tylerstaton.c...
2025-03-2658 minSeen & Unseen Aloud24th March 2024: Adolescence, Witches and theological map-makingIn this week's eclectic mix, Lauren Westwood dives into Netflix's powerful new series, Adolescence; Belle Tindall asks why we are so bewitched by witches and Rowan Williams invites us to "come and see" while he gives us a lesson in theological map-making. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-03-2424 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... The Eastern Orthodox Revival - John Mark ReynoldsDr John Mark Reynolds is the president of the Constantine Schools and College in Texas and the author of numerous books including 'When Athens Met Jerusalem: an Introduction to Classical and Christian Thought'. He is a frequent blogger and lecturer on a wide range of topics including ancient philosophy, classical and home education, politics, faith, and virtue.John Mark was involved in recent research that made global headlines, showing a huge upswing in the numbers of young men entering the Eastern Orthodox Church - precisely the demographic most absent in many churches.
2025-03-191h 02Re-EnchantingRe-Enchanting... Shakespeare - Dr Kate FlahertyDr Kate Flaherty is Senior Lecturer in English and Drama at the Australian National University. She researches how Shakespeare’s works play on the stage of public culture. Her insights have been published in Contemporary Theatre Review, New Theatre Quarterly, Australian Studies and Shakespeare Survey. She is also the author of the book ‘Ours as we play it: Australia Plays Shakespeare’ and of the latest volume of the ‘ Cambridge Elements’ series - 'Ellen Terry, Shakespeare and Suffrage in Australia and New Zealand'.So today Justin and Belle are going to be speaking with Kate about how enchantment...
2025-03-121h 06Seen & Unseen Aloud10th March 2025: The Passion in the White House; Creme Eggs; Timothée Chalamet & White LotusIn a bumper episode we travel with George Pitcher to the White House considering how amid the power plays, the Passion of Zelensky stands out; Ionia Curtius encourages us not to rush to the Creme Eggs, Roger Bretherton prays for Timothée Chalamet in his pursuit of greatness and Belle Tindall joins the conversation between Jaclyn, Laurie, Kate in Season 3 of Mike White's, White Lotus. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-03-1031 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Reality - Andrew DavisonRevd Professor Andrew Davison is Regius Professor of Divinity at The University of Oxford.Andrew has both a scientific and theological background and has frequently worked on the intersection of science and faith, as well as writing on ‘participation’ and the ’sacramental theology' of blessing in books such as ‘Participation In God’ and ‘Blessing’.Andrew says we need to rethink separating things into the categories of ‘natural' and ‘supernatural’ - enchantment is part and parcel of the way the world is and the way we engage it.So today Justin and Belle are going...
2025-03-051h 14Re-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Hospitality - Jo SwinneyJo Swinney is director of communications for the Christian environmental conservation charity A Rocha International. Jo's parents Miranda and Peter Harris were the founders of A Rocha. Miranda's tragic death in 2019 was a shock to all those who knew her. Jo’s book ‘A Place At The Table: Faith, hope and hospitality’ pairs her own words with writings she discovered of her mother’s to celebrate her life and to explore how sharing food is at the heart of a shared life.Justin and Belle hear about the events the led up to Jo writin...
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2025-02-1932 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... The natural world - Rabbi Jonathan WittenbergRabbi Jonathan Wittenberg is rabbi of New North London Synagogue and Senior Rabbi of Masorti Judaism, here in the UK. He’s also the author of numerous books, including ‘Walking with the Light: from Frankfurt to Finchley’, ‘Things My Dog has Taught Me: about being a better human’ and his latest – ‘Listening for God in Torah and Creation’Justin and Belle speak with Jonathan about the workings of Jewish scripture, the nature of awe, wonder, and sensitivity and our reposnibility for the care of the natural world. For more from Rabbi Jonathan: https://jonathanwittenber...
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The Owl and Badger PodcastEpisode 67 - Question The Science™In this episode we discuss the prominent figure Francis Collins, an American physician-scientist and evangelical Christian who led the Human Genome Project, and more recently led the National Institute of Health (NIH) and acted as Science Advisor to President Joe Biden. We review a recent interview he gave to the ‘Re-enchanting’ podcast with Justin Brierley and Belle Tindall following the publishing of his latest book ‘The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith & Trust’. We discuss the dangers of ‘celebrity Christians’, blindly following ‘The Science’, and the accusations made towards those who question the established narrative in their search for truth. We fi...
2025-02-171h 27Seen & Unseen Aloud17th February 2025: Remembering The 21; Grenfell and Rom Coms of the pastThis week, Belle Tindall talks to us about The 21 - a new and powerful short film telling the story of 21 men killed by ISIS 10 years ago; Graham Tomlin explores the different ways of remembering as plans begin to take down the Grenfell Tower; and Yaroslav Walker takes a stroll through his Top 5 romantic comedy movies of years gone by. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-02-1731 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Death - Dame Sue BlackProfessor Lady Sue Black is one of the world’s leading forensic scientists. Police forces, the Foreign Office and the UN have called upon her evidence in countless high-profile investigations. She is currently President of St. John’s College, Oxford, and in 2021 entered the House of Lords as a cross-bench peer. She has penned numerous books, including the Saltire Prize winning ‘All That Remains: A Life in Death’ and her latest book, ‘Written in Bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind’. In 2024, Professor Lady Black was also appointed to the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the...
2025-02-121h 01Re-EnchantingRe-enchanting... The death of Christianity - Rupert ShorttRupert Shortt is an author and research associate at the Von Hugel Institute, University Of Cambridge and a former Religion Editor for the Times Literary Supplement. His latest book ’The Eclipse of Christianity… and why it matters’ has been praised by Tom Holland as ‘ A brilliant survey of Christianity’s decline in Britain- how it happened and why it matters, by one of our most learned and stimulating apologists’. Belle and Justin talk with Rupert about why mainstream churches are in decline across the West and why Europe’s historic faith remains critical to the survival...
2025-02-0558 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... The streets - Les IsaacRev Les Isaac OBE is founder of Ascension Trust. Les came to national attention in 2022 when his message about integrity and the common good at the Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast set in motion a chain of events that led to the resignation of Boris Johnson in the following days. Les is best known as the pioneer of the Street Pastors movement. Every weekend Street Pastors provide care and support to late night clubbers in nearly 250 cities and towns across the UK, a story Les tells in his book ‘Faith On The Streets’.Les...
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Woman Alive | The podcast for Christian womenWomen are cursedIt all began with a little old apple...In this episode we'll be asking if women really are cursed and if we are do we just put up with it? Host Tola-Doll Fisher is joined by two guests:
Michelle Tant is a midwife, lecturer and deacon. She writes on Substack at https://substack.com/@michelletant and for Woman Alive magazine on breastfeeding and women's issues.
Belle Tindall is a theologian with a doctorate in Biblical Studies specialising in the radical inclusion of Jesus and the empowerment of women. She's a regular columnist for Woman Alive magazine and also writes for...
2025-01-2039 minSeen & Unseen Aloud13th January 2025: Mysticism, Elon Musk and Wallace & GromitAs we start the year, we hear from Belle Tindall about some of the great mystics of the Christian faith; Cameron Wiltshire-Plant warns Elon Musk that there is always a cost to "free speech" and Jonathan Rowlands celebrates the deep humanity of Wallace & Gromit. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The MockingcastEpisode 270: Planes, Trains, and MiraclesIn which RJ, Sarah, and Dave talk peak reviewing, Martha Stewart's redemption, and Vietnamese recovery. Also, Spotify brings Dave full circle while Sarah uncovers a lost monologue from an 80s classic.
Click here to read "Whatever You Do, Don't Review This" by Eric Taub in the NY Times.
Click here to read Belle Tindall's "What Spotify Wrapped Really Tells Us About Ourselves" on Seen & Unseen.
Click here to read Elizabeth Bernstein's column on "The Micropolitics of Family Gift Giving" in the WSJ.
Click here to read about "Martha Stewart and the Pursuit of Perfection" on Mbird, courtesy of...
2024-12-211h 12Seen & Unseen AloudChristmas Countdown Day 18: S&UA and the sound of belongingDay 18: Today we revisit S&U Aloud's birthday and the shared sense of belonging to the S&U Aloud community. And we join Belle Tindall at a Jacob Collier concert and hear again the sound of strangers sharing a sense of belonging. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-12-1810 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Wisdom - Francis CollinsFrancis Collins is a physician and geneticist whose groundbreaking work has led to the discovery of the cause of cystic fibrosis among other diseases. He led the Human Genome Project which first sequenced the entire human DNA, established the science-faith organisation BioLogos, and has gone on to serve 3 US presidents as the director of the National Institutes of HealthFrancis’ new book is titled ‘The Road To Wisdom: On truth, science, faith and trust’ and covers some of the controversies and challenges he has faced personally in his public role as a scientist and government advisor leadin...
2024-12-041h 07Seen & Unseen AloudChristmas Countdown Day 4: Binge WatchingDay 4 of the Christmas Countdown brings us Belle Tindall with her plans for Christmas binge watching Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-12-0404 minRe-EnchantingRe-Enchanting... Julian of Norwich - Claire GilbertDr Claire Gilbert is an author, lecturer, mentor and retreat leader and was the founding director of the Westminster Abbey Institute. She is the author of books including ‘Miles To Go Before I Sleep: Letters on Hope, Death and Learning to Live’ and her most recent publication ‘I, Julian’ a novel about the medieval mystic Julian of Norwich.Belle and Justin talk to Claire about how Julian Of Norwich's 'Revelations Of Divine Love' from 650 years ago, can speak to modern spiritual hunger.Claire Gilbert: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Julian-fictional-autobiography-Norwich/dp/1399807544For Re-E...
2024-11-271h 02Re-EnchantingRe-Enchanting... An ahistorical age - Sarah Irving-StonebrakerSarah Irving-Stonebraker is an Australian historian whose new book ‘Priests of History: stewarding the past in an ahistoric age’, says that, in our age of self-invention, modern people are profoundly disconnected from the stories, practises and history that once gave them their identity.Justin and Belle talk to Sarah about re-enchanting an ahistorical age and about her own journey from atheism to Christianity as a young academic at Cambridge and Oxford in the early 2000s.Sarah Irving-Stonebraker: https://www.stonebraker.com.au/For Re-Enchanting: https://www.seenandunseen.com/podcast The...
2024-11-2059 minRe-EnchantingRe-Enchanting... Comic books - SikuSiku is an artist, author, theologian, musician, and a leading comic book artist. He has worked for 2000AD as artist on titles such as Judge Dredd as well as Marvel UK and COM X. He is the author of the book ‘Batman Is Jesus’ and is of course well known for the graphic novel, The Manga Bible.Siku sits down with Justin and Belle to discuss the creative processes of making a comic book, the theology of story-telling and why he thinks 'Batman is Jesus'. For Siku: https://www.theartofsiku.com/For...
2024-11-131h 03Seen & Unseen Aloud11th November 2024: Honest Remembrance; the Miracle of Democracy and the Contempt of the ApprenticeThis week we mark Remembrance with Simon Cansdale as he suggests that hospitals are home to the truth of war; Belle Tindall helps our psychological state post-US election sharing some political wisdom from Luke Bretherton and Yaroslav Walker reviews the Trump movie and how it comments on the President's recent election success. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-11-1119 minRe-EnchantingRe-Enchanting... Life and loss - Zoe Clark-CoatesZoe Clark-Coates MBE has become one of the UK's most trusted voices when it comes to the gigantic topics of grief and loss. She is an author, podcaster and TV broadcaster, as well as the founder and CEO of the Mariposa Trust and co-chair of the most extensive government baby loss review in recent years. Zoe shares her own experience of grief, having lost five babies, and tells of how her faith and her sorrow have always been well acquainted. For Zoe: https://www.zoeadelle.co.uk/For advice and support...
2024-11-0652 minSeen & Unseen Aloud4th November 2024: Seeing Donald Trump; being seen in Beijing and Miranda's diagnosis of the UnseenThis week's episode includes the burning question: is Donald Trump a fascist or a buffoon? asked by George Pitcher; Alex Ross takes us into the world of surveillance that is China and Belle Tindall explores Miranda Hart's diagnosis of the unseen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-11-0423 minRe-EnchantingRe-Enchanting... Politics and the local church - Jack Palmer-WhiteJack Palmer-White is Senior Director at the Good Faith Partnership, an organisation that seeks to bridge some of the gaps between different sectors and, in so doing, find some innovative solutions for some of society’s more difficult problems. Before this, Jack was the Anglican Communion’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations and senior advisor to the Archbishop of Canterbury on social and public affairs.With over a decade of experience of working with charities, faith-based organisations, and social movements to help bring about change at the local, national and global level – Jack talks with Belle...
2024-10-301h 05Re-EnchantingRe-Enchanting… X Factor idolatry - Talia DeanTalia Dean became a household name in 2017 after she wowed judges on the X Factor with her stunning vocals. She went on to a successful music career, collaborating with Brian May of Queen among others. But Talia recently announced she has quit the mainstream music industry after rediscovering her Catholic faith in a big way at the end of last year. Justin and Belle talk to Talia about what sparked her return to faith and dealing with the celebrity world of X Factor madness.Talia Dean: https://taliadean.com/For Re-Enchanting...
2024-10-231h 00Re-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Riots, refugees & Right vs Left - Krish KandiahDr Krish Kandiah OBE is the founder of The Sanctuary Foundation, a charity supporting refugees to find welcome, work and worthwhile housing in the UK. Krish has also been at the forefront of many other initiatives including the fostering and adoption charity Home For Good, as well as writing multiple books on theology, activism and faith.Following a summer marred by riots over immigration, Justin and Belle talk to Krish about re-enchanting compassion for the 'orphan, widow and foreigner' in an increasingly divided culture.Krish Kandiah: https://krishk.com/ For Re-Enchanting: ht...
2024-10-161h 06Re-EnchantingRe-Enchanting... The politics of Jesus - NT WrightNT (Tom) Wright is Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University. Tom has written extensively on Jesus, Paul and early Christianity and his work has been hugely influential across the world. As well as his notable academic career Tom has also served in the Church of England in various roles, including as Bishop of Durham from 2003-2010.Belle and Justin talk to Tom about his new book, co-authored with Mike Bird - Jesus And The Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies. How we can re-enchant 21st Century politics...
2024-10-0958 minSeen & Unseen Aloud7th October 2024: Cosy time, the power of beauty and loving your neighbour in the Middle EastIn this episode, Belle Tindall gets cosy and looks to make the mundane meaningful; Katherine Amphlett tells a very personal and poignant story of a grieving family finding solace and God's presence in natural beauty; on the anniversary of the conflict in the Middle East, Graham Tomlin urges the importance of loving our enemies and embracing a touch of doubt about the certainty of our moral case. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-10-0722 minRe-EnchantingRe-Enchanting... Atheism - Alex O'ConnorAlex O'Connor is a well known atheist Youtube and podcast host with over 800 thousand subscribers to his channel. Unlike many online new atheists he has sought to genuinely understand his Christian and religious counterparts. This included studying theology at Oxford University, helping to re-establish a Socratic debating society in the mould of the one created by CS Lewis, and counting many Christians as his friends and acquaintances. Belle and Justin talk to Alex about atheism, the changing tides of culture and what it would take for Alex to believe… Alex O'Connor: https://www.yo...
2024-10-021h 10Seen & Unseen Aloud9th September 2024: Inside Out, Wild God and Grenfell's Tale of Two TowersThis week we enter a world of high drama - internally we voyage with Henna Cundill through the spiritual potential of the Inside Out films; Belle Tindall takes us on an emotional ride through Nick Cave's new album, Wild God; and Graham Tomlin challenges us to see The Grenfell Tower Inquiry as a significant cultural moment to reflect personally and nationally on the way we treat each other. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-09-0929 minRe-EnchantingRe-Enchanting... Aliens, animals and AI - Nick SpencerNick Spencer is Senior Fellow at Theos and hosts their podcast ‘Reading Our Times’. He is the author of a number of books and reports, including ‘Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion’ and his most recent book co-authored with Hannah Waite, 'Playing God: Science, Religion and the Future of Humanity’.Belle and Justin chat with Nick about aliens, animals and AI. How are the boundaries of science and technology re-enchanting what makes humans unique?Nick Spencer: https://www.theosthinktank.co.uk/authors/3/nick-spencerFor Re-Enchanting: https://www.seenandunseen.com/podcast
2024-07-171h 08Re-EnchantingRe-Enchanting... The Brain - Iain McGilchristIain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist and philosopher, and author of the books ‘The Master And His Emissary’ and ‘The Matter With Things’.Iain’s thesis on the left and right hemispheres of the brain has been highly influential. He believes ‘left hemispheric’ thinking has come to dominate much of modern culture in negative ways.He speaks with Belle and Justin about whether we can we re-enchant our view of the world by re-engaging a ‘right hemispheric’ view of life, love and faith.For Iain McGilchrist: https://channelmcgilchrist.com/home/ For Re-Enchantin...
2024-07-101h 06Re-EnchantingRe-Enchanting... Evangelicalism - Karen Swallow PriorKaren Swallow Prior is a Professor of English Literature and an award-winning author. Her most recent book is 'The Evangelical Imagination: How stories, images and metaphors created a culture in Crisis’.Belle and Justin speak to Karen about the role of the imagination in faith, what the term evangelical means today and whether it can be re-enchanted…Karen Swallow Prior: https://karenswallowprior.com/For Re-Enchanting: https://www.seenandunseen.com/podcast There’s more to life than the world we can see. Re-Enchanting is a podcast from Seen & Unseen record...
2024-07-031h 06Re-EnchantingRe-Enchanting… Agnosticism - Ben SixsmithBen Sixsmith is a journalist and contributing editor at The Critic. He writes for many outlets on culture and politics including at his own substack The Zone. Ben has also written about about his own religious upbringing and his search for faith as an agnostic. In a disenchanted age Justin and Belle talk to Ben about what it takes to believe…Ben Sixsmith: https://bensixsmith.substack.com/For Re-Enchanting: https://www.seenandunseen.com/podcast There’s more to life than the world we can see. Re-Enchanting is a podc...
2024-06-261h 01Re-EnchantingRe-Enchanting... The election(s) - Luke Bretherton2024 will see more than sixty countries hold national elections and more than two billion people eligible to vote - including an imminent election in the UK and what looks to be a historic election in the US. This calls for a special episode of Re-Enchanting. Luke Bretherton is an author and theologian who currently splits his time between Duke University in the US and St Mellitus College here in London. It has just been announced that from January 2025 onwards, Luke will be the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Christ Church...
2024-06-191h 12Re-EnchantingRe-Enchanting... New York City - Rasool BerryRasool Berry serves as teaching pastor at The Bridge Church in Brooklyn, New York. He hosts the Where Ya From? podcast and is the writer, producer and host of the Juneteenth: Faith & Freedom feature-length documentary. Justin and Belle speak to Rasool about Re-enchanting… the city, millennials and Gen Z.Rasool Berry: https://www.rasoolberry.com/For Re-Enchanting: https://www.seenandunseen.com/podcast There’s more to life than the world we can see. Re-Enchanting is a podcast from Seen & Unseen recorded at Lambeth Palace Library, the home of the...
2024-06-121h 15Re-EnchantingRe-Enchanting... Planet Narnia - Michael WardDr Michael Ward is a literary critic, theologian, and renowned C.S. Lewis expert – teaching at both the University of Oxford and Houston Christian University, in Texas. He is the author of books including 'Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis' and 'After Humanity: A guide to C.S. Lewis’ The Abolition of Man'.Justin and Belle talk to Michael about the inner workings of the Narnian universe, the nature of Lewis’ imagination, and one of his most difficult works – The Abolition of Man.Michael Ward: https://michaelward.net ...
2024-06-051h 04Re-EnchantingRe-Enchanting… Middle earth - Holly OrdwayHolly Ordway is a scholar of English literature who is a professor at the Word on Fire Institute in the USA and Houston Christian University. Holly has written about literary and imaginative apologetics, edited and annotated a volume of Gerard Manley Hopkins' poetry, and has also gone on to publish major books on the works of one of her literary heroes JRR Tolkien. These are the award-wining 'Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages’ and the recently published book ‘Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual biography’. Today we’ll be exploring Holly’s own journey and...
2024-05-291h 03Re-EnchantingRe-Enchanting... The 7 deadly sins - Elizabeth OldfieldElizabeth Oldfield is a writer, broadcaster and host of The Sacred podcast. Her new book 'Fully Alive' examines how modern life can be informed by ancient wisdom, including a fresh look at the 'Seven Deadly Sins'. Belle and Justin speak to Elizabeth about her own spiritual journey, wisdom, our common life and the things that most deeply bind us.Elizabeth Oldfield: https://www.elizabetholdfield.com/ For Re-Enchanting: https://www.seenandunseen.com/podcast There’s more to life than the world we can see. Re-Enchanting is a podcast from Se...
2024-05-2259 minRe-EnchantingRe-Enchanting... The life we have - Joshua Luke SmithJoshua Luke Smith is a poet, songwriter, storyteller, podcaster and author of the book 'Something You Once Knew'. His latest album 'Liberated' is available now.Belle and Justin talk to Joshua about re-enchanting creativity, the music industry and ultimately, ‘the life we have’.Joshua Luke Smith: https://www.joshualukesmith.com/ For Re-Enchanting: https://www.seenandunseen.com/podcast There’s more to life than the world we can see. Re-Enchanting is a podcast from Seen & Unseen recorded at Lambeth Palace Library, the home of the Centre for Cultural Witness. Justin...
2024-05-151h 00Seen & Unseen Aloud6th May 2024: Angels, anxiety and what Taylor Swift has in common with Mr BennetThis week, Graham Tomlin talks Angels and their ability to reveal the unseen; Belle Tindall talks about Taylor Swift's new album and what it says about Romanticism and our obsession with epic love stories; Henna Cundill asks whether we are getting anxious about anxiety and what the younger generation has to teach us about using smartphones. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-05-0623 minSeen & Unseen Aloud1st April 2024: the serious art of playing; lament as we remember Sarah Everard; and our addiction to distractionThis week, Simon Walter takes a serious look at the lost art of playing; Belle Tindall helps us look lament right in the face as we remember the traumatic events of Sarah Everard's death; and Jonathan Rowlands diagnoses the consequences of our widespread addiction to distraction and Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-04-0122 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Black Christian voices - Lisa FieldsLisa Fields is the founder of The Jude 3 Project - an organisation helping the Christian community know what they believe and why they believe it with a strong emphasis in equipping those of African descent in the United States and abroad.Lisa founded the organisation after encountering significant intellectual challenges to her own faith. Belle and Justin find out what answers she discovered, the unique challenges that people of colour face when it comes to Christian faith, and how we can re-enchant the voice of black Christians in the world of theology and apologetics.
2024-03-2058 minSeen & Unseen Aloud18th March 2024: Birthday Celebration EpisodeThis week, Seen & Unseen Aloud celebrates its first birthday so this episode includes shout outs to our friends in the UK and around the world as well as replaying 2 of our most popular articles: Belle Tindall's joy in finding the sound of strangers belonging at a Jacob Collier concert and NT Wright's exploration of the Easter Story, finding where creation and justice converge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-03-1820 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... just about everything - Jonathan PageauJonathan Pageau is a French Canadian icon carver, public speaker and YouTuber exploring the symbolic patterns that underlie our experience of the world. He's also the editor of the Orthodox Arts Journal and host of the Symbolic World blog and podcast.Jonathan is also known for his friendship with Jordan Peterson, another thinker invested in symbolism, psychology and pointing people back to Christianity as the modern West navigates a ‘meaning crisis’.Jonathan talk to Justin and Belle about meaning, symbolism, atheism and the meaning crisis as we ask whether we can re-enchant… just about...
2024-03-1359 minSeen & Unseen Aloud11th March 2024: Loneliness, the emotion of politics and misreading the moment at weddingsThis week we explore loneliness with Belle Tindall, the NHS and Downing Street; we think about the role of emotions alongside reason in the realm of politics with Henna Cundill and Jonathan Rowlands straddles both sides of the dispute between wedding photographers and clergy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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PEP TalkWith Belle TindallWhere does our desire for the supernatural fit in the modern world? With a society built on rationality and technology, do we still have longings for a connection with something transcendent? Steve Osmond sits down with Belle Tindall to identify areas in our friends' lives where we can show how the gospel story meets those longings.Dr Belle Tindall is a biblical scholar, writer, speaker, and podcaster. Based at the Centre for Cultural Witness, she is the writer in residence at Seen and Unseen. She is also a columnist for Premier’s Woman Alive magazine and co-host of...
2024-03-0621 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Hollywood & motherhood - Jessica OyelowoJessica Oyelowo is a creative force of nature: an actor, TV and film producer, singer, and song-writer. Jessica has brought her art to both the stage and the screen. Living in Los Angeles with her husband, David, and their four children, much of Jessica’s latest work highlights how her faith, her dreams, her convictions, and her roles tend to collide. In particular, her latest album '(M)other' empowers, honours and champions mothers.Belle and Justin speak to Jessica about Hollywood, motherhood, and what dreaming big dreams looks like when faith is in...
2024-03-061h 03Re-EnchantingRe-enchanting... laughter - Milton JonesMilton Jones is an award-winning stand-up comedian, broadcaster, author, and 'Mock the Week' legend. He's a king of the one-liners, and crafter of the ‘Ten-Second Sermon’. Belle and Justin chat to Milton about his life, his comedy, and his Christian faith – as well as discussing the relationship between God and laughter.For Milton Jones: https://miltonjones.com/For Re-Enchanting: https://www.seenandunseen.com/podcastThere’s more to life than the world we can see. Re-Enchanting is a podcast from Seen & Unseen recorded at Lambeth Palace Library, the home of the Centre f...
2024-02-2854 min
Faith in MediaSeason 2: Episode 5 - Breaking Boundaries
A refreshing and honouring conversation with our guest, author, journalist, academic, and podcaster; Dr Belle Tindall. In this conversation we discuss and question the wide breadth of both societal, and Christian interaction with ideas of feminism. What is its place within our evolving world? How can we have grace for others with various perspectives and experiences on the issue? Another conversation with Carla not to be missed!
2024-02-2750 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Recovery from addiction - Lauren WindleLauren Windle is a journalist, author, speaker and presenter who specialises in faith, recovery and love. She is the author of 'Notes on Love: being single and dating in a marriage-obsessed church' and the upcoming 'Notes on Feminism: Being a woman in a male-led church'.Justin and Belle chat with Lauren about her own story of addiction, recovery and faith, the intersection between Christianity and feminism from her perspective within the church, and the pervasive questions being asked by today’s culture.For Lauren Windle: https://laurenwindle.com/For Re-Enchanting: https://ww...
2024-02-211h 02Re-EnchantingRe-enchanting... singleness & sexuality - David BennettDavid Bennett is an author, speaker and theologian based at Oxford University. Originally from Australia, his book 'A War of Loves' describes his own story of encountering the love of God in a pub in the gay quarter of Sydney. He tells Belle and Justin how, as an atheistic gay activist, he became a follower of Jesus and why he advocates for a positive moral vision of biblical sexuality and discipleship.For David Bennett: https://www.dacbennett.com/For Re-Enchanting: https://www.seenandunseen.com/podcastThere’s more to life than the...
2024-02-1450 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... the human faces behind poverty - Sabina AlkireProfessor Sabina Alkire directs the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative at the University of Oxford. Sabina has been involved in developing methods of measuring multidimensional poverty and her work is used to address development issues in countries around the world.
Sabina is ordained in the Anglican Church. Belle and Justin explore how her Christian faith maps onto her work in engaging poverty and development and how we can re-enchant our capacity for justice and compassion in tackling global poverty.For Sabina Alkire: https://ophi.org.uk/sabina-alkire/For Re-Enchanting: https://www.s...
2024-02-071h 01Re-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Visions, dreams & storytelling - Martin ShawMartin Shaw is a renowned storyteller and mythologist, who in the last couple of years has his own quite extraordinary conversion story to tell. After many years as a poet, author and teaching others through the West Country school of myth, Martin had a visionary encounter that confounded all his expectations. Martin is now a Christian but sees this homecoming as a fulfilment of a life invested in mythology and storytelling. He tells Justin and Belle his story as they discuss storytelling, mythology and rediscovering Christianity as a ‘dream’.For Mart...
2024-01-311h 01Re-EnchantingRe-enchanting... feminism & the culture wars - Helen LewisHelen Lewis is a journalist, broadcaster and staff writer for The Atlantic. She is the author of 'Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights’ and has been writing and speaking about feminism, gender, and the culture wars for several years... and occasionally gets caught up in them herself, including a viral interview with Jordan Peterson for GQ. Justin and Belle chat to Helen about the religious instincts that seems to underly secular activism on both the left and right, and whether she sees any way forward in re-enchanting feminism and the culture wars of our da...
2024-01-2456 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Politics - Rory StewartRory Stewart is a former cabinet minister and MP who co-hosts the hugely popular podcast 'The Rest Is Politics'. He is author of the best-selling autobiography 'Politics On The Edge'. He is interviewed by former cabinet minister Rev Jonathan Aitken who spent time in prison after being convicted of perjury, an experience which led him to embrace Christian faith. They talk about whether politics is being taken seriously, prison reform, and how Stewart's own faith infoms his vocation to public life and service.For Rory Stewart: https://www.rorystewart.co.uk/For Re-Enchanting: https...
2024-01-1757 minSeen & Unseen Aloud8th January 2024: New Year compilation: the Writer's cutThis second of our New Year compilations has been put together by Belle Tindall, Writer for the Centre for Cultural Witness and Seen & Unseen and Co-host of the Re-enchanting Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-01-0836 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Race, grace and being black in America - Esau McCaulleyEsau McCaulley is an author, public theologian and associate professor of New Testament at Wheaton College. His book 'Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope' won numerous awards. His new memoir 'How far to the Promised Land', draws on his life and experiences to question what the American dream looks like for African-Americans.Justin and Belle talk to Esau about growing up in Alabama, the racial divides of the past and present in the USA, what difference it makes to read the Bible through the lens of African-American experience and whether...
2023-12-071h 11Re-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Cancer - Kate BowlerKate Bowler is an author podcast host, and an Associate Professor of American Religious History at Duke University in North Carolina. After being unexpectedly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer at age 35, Kate penned the New York Times bestselling memoir, Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I’ve Loved) and No Cure For Being Human (and Other Truths I Need to Hear). Kate hosts the Everything Happens podcast where she talks with her guests about what they’ve learned in difficult times.Justin and Belle talk to Kate about her journey with cancer and some of t...
2023-11-291h 00Seen & Unseen Aloud27th November 2023: a Faith museum; the Screwtape Letters and dinner in AmmanIn this week's episode, we get a guided tour of some impactful exhibits as Robert Wright visits the UK's only Faith Museum, in Bishop Auckland, and hears how its funder hopes to inspire reflection on the divine; 60 years after its author’s death, The Screwtape Letters image of hell as an unscrupulous business is still relevant. Simon Horobin tells how C.S. Lewis came to author the influential bestseller; and dining in a different culture lets Belle Tindall contemplate struggle and belonging across the heartlands of the Middle East. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-11-2732 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Artificial Intelligence - Ros PicardProfessor Rosalind Picard is founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at MIT. She has pioneered the field of life-saving wearable technology that responds to human emotion and wellbeing. Ros is an expert in machine learning and AI - a field that has exploded in public consciousness recently, moving from the world of sci-fi to everyday life with the advent of Chat GPT and numerous other interactive AI programmes. What does all this mean for the future of humanity? How do we ensure that technology doesn't dehumanise its creators? Ros approaches these questions not...
2023-11-221h 01Re-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Kings, Queens & The Church - Suzannah Lipscomb Suzannah Lipscomb is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster who has brought the loves, lives and intrigues of the sixteenth century to millions of people through TV shows, podcasts and writing. She is the author of several books, including '1536: The Year that changed Henry VIII' and 'The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc'.Justin and Belle talk to Suzannah about why she has devoted her life to understanding the past, the way the British monarchy shaped Christendom, why she is focussed on uncovering the real stories of women in our h...
2023-11-151h 15Re-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Kindness, Equality & Progress - Glen ScrivenerGlen Scrivener is an author, speaker, filmmaker and director of the charity Speak Life. His most recent book ’The Air We Breathe’ has been widely praised as a guide to ‘how we all came to believe in freedom, kindness, progress and equality’.Glen’s book is a whistle stop tour of 2,000 years of history showing why it was the Christian revolution that gave the West its moral instincts on compassion, equality, consent, freedom and progress.For The Air We Breathe: https://speaklife.org.uk/books/For Re-Enchanting: https://www.seenandunseen.com/podcast
2023-11-081h 04Re-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Racial Justice - Chine McDonaldChine McDonald is an author, public theologian and speaker and the Director of Theos. Her most recent book ‘God is not a white man: And other revelations’ told her own experience as a black woman in Britain and the way in which both culture and the church still have a long way to go in addressing racism.How does the Christian story speak to these issues? Is the church just as complicit in racism as the culture around it? What has helped Chine to keep faith in a vision of truly multicultural kingdom of God in whic...
2023-11-011h 03Woman Alive | The podcast for Christian womenThe threat of feminismIn this episode of the Woman Alive podcast, Tola-Doll Fisher discusses the topic of feminism with university lecturer in Theology, Dr Belle Tindall, author of the book 'The Contemporary woman: Can She Really Have it All?', Michele Guinness and Artistic Director Oyindamola Fakeye. This conversation is based on an article written by Dr Belle Tindall https://www.womanalive.co.uk/opinion/some-christians-arent-keen-on-feminism-but-i-think-fighting-for-womens-rights-often-doesnt-go-far-enough/13058.article. Subscribe to our magazine today and get 50% off. Head to womanalive.co.uk/subscribe and use the code POD23
2023-10-2741 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... New Atheism - Justin BrierleyRichard Dawkins and the new atheists began a popular anti-God movement in the mid 2000s. But why did the movement sputter out? And could we be seeing the start of a new conversation on God?Re-Enchanting co-host Justin Brierley becomes the guest in this edition of the show as Belle Tindall and Graham Tomlin interview him about his new book 'The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God: Why new atheism grew old and secular thinkers are considering Christianity again.'For the book: https://justinbrierley.com/the-surprising-rebirth-of-belief-in-god/ For Re-Enchanting: https...
2023-10-2552 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Disney - Esmé Partridge & Yaroslav Sky-WalkerThis October marks Disney’s 100th birthday. Since Disney are in the ‘enchantment’ business, we're dedicating a special episode to discussing its cultural impact. Two guests join Belle and Justin.Yaroslav Sky-Walker is the assistant Priest of Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square In his spare time, Yaroslav reads theology and writes slightly histrionic film reviews… many of which you can find on Seen and Unseen. Esmé Partridge is a writer and MPhil candidate in the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge. She also works at the intersection of religion and politics, focusing...
2023-10-1856 minSeen & Unseen Aloud16th October 2023: Crazy Christians in movies, a felled tree and a Catholic comedianThe line up for this week's episode sounds like the start of a joke.... but it's actually very thought-provoking. Roger Bretherton asks the age old question, "why are all Christians in movies crazy?"; Theodore Brun mourns the loss of the Sycamore Gap Tree and explores what it's demise can teach us; Belle Tindall takes us backstage to her conversation with Frank Skinner and the surprise that Christians are actually interesting. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-10-1625 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Conversion & US evangelicalism - Molly WorthenMolly Worthen is a journalist and associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For the past decade she has pursued a career researching the religious and intellectual history of North America. As well as writing books such as 'Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism', she is regular contributor to publications such as the New York Times, The Atlantic and The New Yorker.But Molly’s story took an interesting turn recently. Having been an agnostic most of her life, last year she converted to Christianity. Having re...
2023-10-111h 07Seen & Unseen Aloud9th October 2023: "what if"s in politics; the power of faith & foodbanks and the reality of Disney's Prince CharmingThis week Belle Tindall takes us behind the scenes in British politics with Rory Stewart's "tell all" published memoir; Robert Wright explores the powerful motivation of faith at work in food banks in the midst of the cost of living crisis; and Lauren Windle finds little charm in Snow White's Prince Charming as Disney celebrates its centenary. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-10-0927 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Comedy - Frank SkinnerFrank Skinner is a comedian, broadcaster and author who has entertained millions through TV shows such as Fantasy Football League, The Frank Skinner Show, Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned and Room 101, as well as many sell-out stand-up comedy tours. Frank’s love of comedy is surpassed only by his love of football. He is a lifelong supporter of West Bromwich Albion and, with David Baddiel and the Lightning Seeds, penned ’Three Lions' the best known football anthem of modern times.But Frank’s other great love is his Catholic faith, something he reconnected with after initially trying to wal...
2023-10-041h 08Re-EnchantingSeason 2 preview... 10 more conversations are comingJustin Brierley gives a preview of some of the guests joining him and Belle Tindall for Season 2 of Re-Enchanting throughout Oct, Nov and Dec 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-10-0302 minSeen & Unseen Aloud25th September 2023: the human condition - the problem with men; the power of shame and imagining the fragility of our heartsThis week we explore the human condition: James Ray seeks the Authentic Man in answer to the question of the Problem with Men; Henna Cundill takes a dive into the murky shallows of cancel culture and shame's historic role in guarding community boundaries; Belle Tindall goes to the Seven Psalms Exhibition to experience the songs and sketches of Paul Simon and Charlie Mackesy's collaboration and finds questions and answers from the duo we didn’t know we were missing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-09-2527 minSeen & Unseen AloudThe Seven Deadly Sins Vol 2In this second volume of the Seven Deadly Sins, we hear Belle Tindall exploring how Lust minimises or sensationalises sex and desire; we find James Mumford encountering Anger, reflecting that its object is no mere object; and Jonathan Aitken identifies Pride as egotism with a capital E and the cause of his own royal flush of crises Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-08-2835 minSeen & Unseen Aloud7th August 2023: a clash of worlds: Barbie and beggingThis week's episode offers us 2 articles thinking deeply about the potential shallows of Barbieland - Lauren Windle's The Good the Bad and the Barbie and Belle Tindall's thoughtful insights into Billie Eilish's soundtrack song What was I made for? - and then to bring us crashing back into the Real World, Jon Kuhrt explores why "Begging bothers us tremendously". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-08-0727 minSeen & Unseen Aloud31st July: Summer Special Part 3This is the third episode in our series of Summer Specials: Belle Tindall - Reporter for Seen and Unseen and co-host of the Re-Enchanting podcast - chooses and narrates a trilogy of powerhouse women: Chasing the Rains by Jane Cacouris; Trusting her Experience by Jane Williams and Diary of an Invisible war by Lika Zakaryan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-07-3124 minSeen & Unseen Aloud24th July 2023: Summer Special Part 2This episode is the second in our series of Summer Specials with guest narrators. This week we hear from the Rt Rev'd Graham Tomlin as he narrates Jane Canlis' article about the healing power of the F-word and his own article claiming the language of politics cannot domesticate religion; we also hear Paula Hynd's choice, written by Belle Tindall, A Sky Full of Stars: lessons on awe from Coldplay's concert. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-07-2425 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... The Bible - Vishal MangalwadiVishal Mangalwadi is a social reformer and philosopher who has been described as 'India's foremost Christian intellectual'. He is the author of 'The book that made your world: How the Bible created the soul of Western civilisation'. Vishal talks to Justin and Belle about the way the Bible has shaped the West and his home country of India, including codifying language and bringing an end to widow burning and infanticide. Belle and Justin also reflect on past guests as this tenth episode marks the end of season 1 of Re-Enchanting.For Vishal Mangalwadi: https://www.revelationmovement.com/
2023-06-141h 04Seen & Unseen Aloud12th June 2023: neurodiversity in Pentonville Prison; nuns hold up a bank; finding Eden in the East End & cycling from darkness to lightThis week's episode discovers a successful neurodiversity unit at Pentonville Prison and Nuns holdin up a bank in Oxford Street, Belle Tindall discovers Eden in the East End and Graeme Holdsworth cycles from darkness into light Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-06-1227 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Education - Katharine BirbalsinghDubbed 'Britain's strictest headteacher', Katharine Birbalsingh's no-nonsense approach to education has won her both fans and critics. But the Michaela Community School she founded in inner city London has proven itself with outstanding results. Katharine talks to Justin and Belle about why, even though she does not profess faith herself, she sees the value of the Christian worldview in education.For Re-Enchanting: https://www.seenandunseen.com/podcastThere’s more to life than the world we can see. Re-Enchanting is a podcast from Seen & Unseen recorded at Lambeth Palace Library, the home of th...
2023-06-0758 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Nature - Paul KingsnorthCelebrated author, poet and environmentalist Paul Kingsnorth tells Belle and Justin about his recent conversion to Orthodox Christianity via Buddhism and Wicca. They talk about his concerns at the direction of the environmental movement, his love of the 'wild saints' and why AI may just be the antichrist. For Paul Kingsnorth: https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/For Re-Enchanting: https://www.seenandunseen.com/podcastThere’s more to life than the world we can see. Re-Enchanting is a podcast from Seen & Unseen recorded at Lambeth Palace Library, the home of the Centre fo...
2023-05-311h 02Re-EnchantingRe-enchanting... The Human Story - Marilynne RobinsonWhat is the nature of a human soul? Marilynne Robinson has sought to re-enchant the divine mystery of everyday human life in her novels. Marilynne is a Pulitzer Prize winning author of bestselling works including 'Housekeeping', 'Gilead', 'Home' and 'Lila'. As a Christian she has a deep interest in the way theology and scripture speak to contemporary life. Belle and Justin chat to Marilynne about how her novels and essays have sought to re-enchant the human story.For Re-Enchanting: https://www.seenandunseen.com/podcastThere’s more to life than th...
2023-05-241h 01Re-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Public Life - Lord Michael HastingsPeople have lost confidence in leaders and insititutions. Can politics and public life be re-enchanted? Lord Michael Hastings of Scarisbrick is an independent peer in the House of Lords who has worked in business, education and international development. He tells Justin Brierley and Belle Tindall about growing up in Jamaica and the UK, and how his faith has led him to 'bend the power of the prosperous to the potential of the poor'.For Re-Enchanting: https://www.seenandunseen.com/podcast There’s more to life than the world we can see. Re-Enchanting is a...
2023-05-171h 03Re-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Sex - Louise PerryLouise Perry is a journalist and the author of 'The Case Against The Sexual Revolution', arguing that sex has become disenchanted in the modern West's libertarian, pornified, hook-up culture. Although the book was not written from a Christian perspective, Louise tells Belle Tindall and Justin Brierley why she has come to some surprisingly traditional conclusions about marriage, sex and relationships.For Louise Perry: https://www.louisemperry.co.uk/For Re-Enchanting: https://www.seenandunseen.com/podcast There’s more to life than the world we can see. Re-Enchanting is a podcast from Se...
2023-05-101h 01Seen & Unseen Aloud8th May 2023: activism, authenticity, astronomy, transhumanism and a campfire encounterAn eclectic mix: Stephen Backhouse's reflections on Søren Kierkegaard; Elizabeth Wainwright thinking about what's up with activism; Belle Tindall talks about her conversation with Jennifer Wiseman; Oliver Dürr challenges transhumanism and Jer Swigart remembers a campfire encounter and what it taught him about enemies and empathy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-05-0849 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... History & The Coronation - Tom HollandCan the secular West outlive its Christian past? Will the coronation remind us of our Christian inheritance? Tom Holland is a historian and author who co-hosts the popular podcast 'The Rest Is History'. His best-selling book 'Dominion' charted how the Christian revolution shaped the West's moral instincts. He chats with Belle Tindall and Justin Brierley about why modern secularists are still swimming in Christian waters, and why he has personally become enchanted by the 'greatest story ever told'. https://www.seenandunseen.com/podcastThere’s more to life than the world we can se...
2023-05-031h 04Re-EnchantingRe-enchanting... The Universe - Dr Jennifer WisemanDr Jennifer Wiseman is an astronomer and Director Emeritus of the program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion for the American Association of the Advancement of Science. She is also a senior astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Jennifer talks to Justin Brierley and Belle Tindall about space exploration, including private company space flights and deep space astronomy. She describes exoplanets, stars, and galaxies, and how she sees the hand of God behind the Universe and our place in it.https://www.seenandunseen.com/podcastThere’s mo...
2023-04-2654 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Reading & Writing - Francis SpuffordFrancis Spufford is an award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction. His 2012 book 'Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense' responded to new atheism with a unique argument for the way faith engages our hopes, failures and longings. He joins Belle Tindall and Justin Brierley to discuss the way books ignite our imagination and how the Christian story shapes his own writing.https://www.seenandunseen.com/podcastThere’s more to life than the world we can see. Re-Enchanting is a podcast from Seen & Unseen engaging faith and spirituality with le...
2023-04-2158 minRe-EnchantingRe-enchanting... Culture - Bishop Graham TomlinIn this inaugural episode, Belle Tindall and Justin Brierley chat with Bishop Graham Tomlin, director of the recently established Centre for Cultural Witness, about modern 'dis-enchantment' and whether there is still room for Christian faith in the contemporary West. They discuss the new podcast Re-Enchanting and the Centre's new website Seen & Unseen.https://www.seenandunseen.com/podcastThere’s more to life than the world we can see. Re-Enchanting is a podcast from Seen & Unseen engaging faith and spirituality with leading figures in science, history, politics, art and education. Can our culture be re...
2023-04-1952 min
Re-EnchantingIntroducing Re-Enchanting - Justin Brierley & Belle TindallThere’s more to life than the world we can see.Justin Brierley & Belle Tindall introduce a new podcast from Seen & Unseen. Stories, guests and interviews that can re-enchant our vision of culture, science, politics and art. Recorded at Lambeth Palace Library, the new home of the Centre for Cultural Witness.The Re-enchanting podcast sees hosts, Justin Brierley and Belle Tindall, talk with guests about how Christianity can re-enchant culture, politics, the arts, the sciences, history, and so much more.Despite the increasingly scientific and secular age we live in, many peop...
2023-04-1401 minSeen & Unseen Aloud3 April - The war in Ukraine, spiritual consciousness and Jacob CollierDaniel Kim explores what’s driving a $3.7 trillion industry ‘market’ for spiritual consciousness, Ukrainian musician Lyuba Reznichenko reflects on the war’s anniversary, Belle Tindall wonders why thousands of strangers singing together has been eliciting such a powerful reaction and Sian Brookes reviews the film adaptation of Alan Bennett’s play. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-04-0333 minSeen & Unseen Aloud20 March - Discovering the Seen & UnseenA curated selection of the editor's top picks of our recent articles.Our first episode features articles from Graham Tomlin where he explores more of the Seen & Unseen, and article from Alister McGrath - Seeing the World through Different Eyes - which explores how the creeds can help us help imagine life, and Where it's Dangerous to Believe with Belle Tindall, a reflection on the fifty most dangerous countries to be a Christian in the world this year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-03-1618 min