A podcast exploration of the themes of Scottie's book, 21 Elephants, about faith, justice, mission and spiritual formation
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Discover Seen & Unseen articles. The best writing curated by our editors read aloud, sharing Christian perspectives on just about everything. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Sexual Wellness Sessions Podcast is a series of interviews hosted by Psychosexual and Relationship Therapist Kate Moyle. So many of these conversations about sex and relationships are happening behind the therapy room door; and Kate wants to bring them into the mainstream so that sexual wellbeing can get the attention it deserves. This series of interviews is about changing narratives, challenging beliefs, breaking away from feelings of shame and helping people to normalise talking about ...
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24th June 2024: the companionship of reading, the benefit of enemies and the power of mercy
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This week, we slow down with Jessica Brown and consider the companionship to be found in reading with others; Henna Cundill asks whether loving our enemies (even within the political realm) can be beneficial for personal growth and Natalie Williams contemplates the extraordinary power of mercy within the workings of society Hosted on Acast. See aca…
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17th June 2024: How we decide what is true rests on where we start from: God, football and politics
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This week we take a close look at how we think: Graham Tomlin considers the different thought paradigms of Richard Dawkins and Ayaan Hirsi Ali; Simon Burton-Jones delves into the psychology of football fans and Barnabas Aspray thinks about what happens when political dialogue gives way to animal-like culture war. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv…
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Danyon Morton-Chong: sacrifice - 16 june 2024
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Annelies Berends: Spiritual warfare - 2 June 2024
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10th June 2024: Undemocratic dairy; SciFi theology and Tears of Gold
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This week, Yaroslav Walker argues that Democracy and Dairy just don't mix; Roger Bretherton explores the philosophy / theology of Netflix's The Three Body Problem and Jane Cacouris is moved by artist Hannah Thomas' visceral and moving portraits which offer a glimpse into suffering, and healing, souls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more…
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3rd June 2024: Bridgerton, "messianic" politicians & AI's liberation of humanity
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This week, Bex Chapman unlock's Bridgerton's complex identity coding; Cameron Wiltshire-Plant advises his younger self not to believe in the messianic hype of politicians and Daniel Kim suggests that AI's dominance could unleash our very humanity Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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27th May 2024: Humility and leadership - a weird but essential combo
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This week we think about leadership and humility as unlikely but essential bedfellows: Roger Bretherton exhorts us to look out for the outliers who bring something unique to the group; Graham Tomlin learns about humble leadership from Pope Francis and Elizabeth Wainwright calls out for a new style of leadership in a year of local, national and inte…
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20th May 2024: Life is messy, making a home in Blackpool and the art of pilgrimage
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This week we turn with Emerson Csorba to American politics - and James Baker in particular - to explore the messiness of life; we travel with John Clifton to Blackpool to find out how to make a place a home and Graeme Holdsworth asks what makes a journey into a pilgrimage? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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13th May 2024: Simon Reeve's zeal; reform votes at the Garrick Club and weaponised words in the world of knife crime
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This week we start with the infectious zeal of Simon Reeve's green agenda; we go to the Garrick Club with George Pitcher, comparing the vote for inclusion of women in its membership with the vote for ordaining women as priests in the Church of England; we close with Krish Kandiah's poignant telling of the parallel stories of Daniel Anjorin, Salman …
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Tessa Guest: Contemplative Prayer - 12 May 2024
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6th May 2024: Angels, anxiety and what Taylor Swift has in common with Mr Bennet
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This 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 …
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Annelies Berends: Petitionary Prayer - 21 Apr 2024
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Petra/Gill: Pride service - 14 April 2024
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29th April 2024: Marriage as martyrdom; Bullies in the Political playground and VAR stealing the joy
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Henna Cundill and a tutorial of students discuss the living martyrdom of marriage; George Pitcher unearths Trump & Putin's Christ complex and Graham Tomlin gives VAR a red card Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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22nd April 2024: Scottie Scheffler; the power of love; and Graham Tomlin's take on the rest is Luther
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This week, Jonny Reid unearths where Scottie Scheffler finds his deep sense of security; Elizabeth Wainwright explores the power of love in the face of lovelessness and Graham Tomlin casts a professional critique of Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook's Luther series on The Rest is History podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform…
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15th April 2024: Scorsese, Beyoncé and the importance of not trying to cope alone
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In this week's episode, we are taken on a guided, spiritual tour of Martin Scorsese's movies by Sonny Tindall; Krish Kandiah commends Beyoncé's country fight and Katherine Amphlett finds comfort in sharing her discomfort with others Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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8th April 2024: Jane Austin's fashionable goodness, re-enchanting glum councillors and Theresa Lola's hopeful poetry
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This week, Beatrice Scudeler explores the world of Jane Austen; Elizabeth Wainwright tries her best to re-enchant local government with the joy of beauty and Jonathan Evens describes the work of Theresa Lola, the death-haunted yet lyrical, joyful and moving poet for a new generation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Danyon Morton-Chong: Praise and prayer - 7 April 2024
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1st April 2024: the serious art of playing; lament as we remember Sarah Everard; and our addiction to distraction
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This 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.…
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25th March 2024: big thoughts for Easter Week
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In this episode, to mark Easter Week, we are thinking about some of the biggest questions of the human experience: Barnabas Aspray explores the unfashionable but possibly vital virtue of temperance; Owen Gallacher asks whether Putin's reality is the most "real" reality or whether the events of Easter may point to something even more real and Nathan…
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Danyon Morton-Chong: Why we pray - 17 March 2024
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Andy Newport: Pressed but not crushed - 24 March 2024
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Seen & Unseen Aloud Special Episode: Graham Tomlin interviews Miroslav Volf
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An exciting special episode: Bishop Graham Tomlin has a chat with Croatian-born, US-based theologian, writer and thinker Miroslav Volf about cultural themes in the run up to the US Election; how Christian faith and politics make good sparring partners. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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18th March 2024: Birthday Celebration Episode
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This 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 …
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11th March 2024: Loneliness, the emotion of politics and misreading the moment at weddings
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This 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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Danyon Morton-Chong: struck down, but not destroyed - 10th march 2024
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4th March 2024: Time travel on a train; the gospel according to ITV's docu-dramas and Navalny's thirst for justice
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This week we hear about James Sampson-Foster's lesson in time travel as he waits for a delayed train; George Pitcher commends the story telling of ITV's docu-dramas as truth telling and Michael Bird contemplates the Christian faith that motivated Alexei Navalny's dangerous thirst for righteousness; Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in…
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26th February 2024: doubt and the spiritual practices of Lent explained
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As we gear up to celebrate the first anniversary of Seen & Unseen Aloud, to thank our listeners for their support, we invite requests for a special compilation episode. To submit your request, head over to seenandunseen.com. Meanwhile, this week, we have an in depth dive into the realities of doubt, inspired by Prince William and explored by Bishop…
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Danyon Morton-Chong: persecuted but not abandoned - 25 Febuary 2024
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19th February 2024: ADHD facts beyond the fad; identifying as human and Medieval wisdom on intermittent fasting
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This week, first up Henna Cundhill helps us consider the real life challenges and superpowers of an ADHD diagnosis and then we head into the first of our Lent offerings with Barnabas Aspray explaining how identifying as human has deadly implications and Julie Canlis exploring some medieval wisdom around the benefits of intermittent fasting Hosted o…
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12th February 2024: Church & State, Northern Ireland and a whole lot of FOMO...
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This week's selection includes Graham Tomlin's thoughts about what a healthy relationship between church and state looks like; Andy Flannagan talking about the power of distraction at a national, political level and Mica Gray muses on faith, hope and her recent experience of FOMO Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Danyon Morton-Chong: Blueprint vision and challenges for 2024 - 11 Febuary 2024
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5th February 2024: Jesus walks on the red carpet, the damage of mental ill health and life lessons from Jurgen Klopp
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This week we have the glamour of Jesus walking the red carpet in Leicester Square as Natalie Garrett analyses the success of the TV show The Chosen; Rachael Newham speaks out on Time to Talk Day about the deeper realities of severe mental ill health; and Jonathan Rowlands is reeling from Jurgen Klopp's decision to leave Liverpool FC and thinks abou…
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Danyon Morton-Chong: Being at home in the house of the lord - 28 January 2024
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29th January 2024: Ancient cave paintings, Veganuary and an Egyptian mega church in Garbage City
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As ever, we have a smogarsbord to listen to... Iwan Russell-Jones explores some 30,000 year old cave paintings; Trystan Owain Hughes asks why Veganuary still has merit and Graham Tomlin tells the story of how the biggest church in the Middle East was born in Garbage City. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Esmé Putt: New years resolutions with Jesus - 21 January 2024
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22nd January 2024: the Post Office, Politics and Medicine
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In this episode, we dig into the (sometimes murky) world of public service: We hear from MP Danny Kruger on why we need a gentle radical revolution in political thinking around social care; we hear from Bp Graham Tomlin with his reaction to the Post Office scandal; and we hear M. Ciftci's (possibly controversial) thoughts about the Hypocratic Oath,…
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15th January 2024: assisted dying, One Life saves 100s and the flawed power of self-belief
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As we come back to normal after the holiday compilations, we hear Michael Wenham answer his brother's question about Esther Rantzen and the assisted dying/suicide movement; Krish Kandiah reflects from the London Premiere of One Life and the extraordinary story of one man who saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish children; and Roger Bretherton dives…
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8th January 2024: New Year compilation: the Writer's cut
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This 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.
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1st January 2024: New Year Compilation: the Director's cut
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At the start of a new year, Bishop Graham Tomlin - Director of the Centre for Cultural Witness (which publishes Seen & Unseen and hosts the Seen & Unseen Aloud podcast) looks back over his favourite articles of 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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25th December 2023: Christmas Compilation - Senior Editor's top picks
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In the second of our Christmas compilations, Senior Editor of Seen & Unseen, Nick Jones, chooses his favourite articles from Seen & Unseen from 2023 - sit back and enjoy a curated stroll down memory lane and see if we've picked your favourites... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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18th December 2023: Christmas Compilation - Narrator's top picks
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For the Christmas season, the Team at Seen & Unseen Aloud have put together Christmas Compilations from the past year: sit back and enjoy a curated stroll down memory lane - have we picked your favourites? This week's compilation has been chosen by Seen & Unseen Aloud's Narrator, Natalie Garrett. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info…
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Welcome to 'Before I Go', our season on death and dying. In this second episode of season five, we talk with beloved author and spiritual director Joy Cowley.By Scottie Reeve, Spanky Moore & Rose Morris
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11th December 2023: de-coding carols; tears in the bleak midwinter and the earth-shaking consequences of Christmas
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In this week's episode we get a lesson in de-coding the hidden messages in Christmas carols from Ian Bradley; in a world of devastation, J.S. Averill shares poignant and honest feelings of loss and hopeless and the Advent possibility of not being overcome; Barnabas Aspray mines the earth-shaking consequences of Christmas Hosted on Acast. See acast.…
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Gilbert Ostini: Exausted during Advent - 11 December 2023
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4th December 2023: how we find ourselves in algorithms, barbers' chairs and TTRPGs
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This week we are exploring the surprising and different ways we find out about ourselves and the stories we inhabit - Graham Tomlin dives into the moral algorithms of social media; Adrian Urquidez and Neal Presa tell stories of deep friendship and Harry Gibbins unpacks Dungeons & Dragons' philosophical toolkit Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy…
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Danyon Morton-Chong: Joy - 4 December 2023
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27th November 2023: a Faith museum; the Screwtape Letters and dinner in Amman
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In 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 …
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20th November 2023: Attention, the Beatles and Chandler Bing
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This week we consider the power of attention - the giving and receiving of it and its power for healing but also the complexities of fame; Justine Toh considers what Simone Weil's philosophy of attention has to say to western culture's attention battles; Jamie Mulvaney takes us to the National Portrait Gallery in London to look at Sir Paul McCartne…
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