Seen & Unseen Aloud

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.

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.

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.

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 information.

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.com/privacy for more information.

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 for more information.

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 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.

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 McCartney's unseen portraits of the Beatles; James Cary speaks of the grief at the death of Matthew Perry and unexpected twists in the story of real life Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we hear Julie Canlis explaining the church's season of Ordinary Time and why it's so special; we continue to follow Ian Hamlin on his adventures as he takes us to some significant memorials of American and human history; Ryan Gilfeather asks questions about human dignity and worth in the context of the Israel/Hamas war Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Lydia Dugdale celebrates All Saints Day by remembering the lost of art dying well; George Pitcher observes that simple calls for peace are often against the grain of power, yet many still yearn for it, even when faced with complexities and impossibilities; Ian Hamlin talks about the merging of stories and their power to inspire and change the world, as he continues on the trail to find out more about his hero. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.