Re-Enchanting

Andrew Peterson is a singer-songwriter, author, and founder of the Rabbit Room. As an author, Andrew’s books include the four volumes of the award-winning Wingfeather Saga, which have sold more than a million copies, along with his creative memoirs, Adorning the Dark, and The God of the Garden. He’s also an executive producer of the Wingfeather Saga Animated Series.  In this conversation, And...

Alicia Edmund is head of public policy for the Evangelical Alliance and leads the advocacy team’s parliamentary engagement. She has worked on a range of issues including: asylum resettlement, refugee integration, poverty relief and religious freedom in the UK and overseas. Recently Alicia has been deeply involved in conversations on the rise of Christian Nationalism in the UK, helping policy maker...

Belle has written a book! The co-host of Re-Enchanting joins Justin and Graham Tomlin to talk about manifesting, witchcraft, nature worship and more as they explore Belle's new book 'The Sacred Ache: A Christian perspective on the search for spirituality in witchcraft, crystals and tarot'.  Reflecting on many interviews with former podcast guests, the team explore the positive and negative as...

Al Gordon leads Saint, a thriving church in East London which has been seeing a remarkable upturn of young people gathering for all night prayer and worship in recent years.  Al is the founder of Renaissance - a movement to equip creatives and empower churches to be cathedrals of creativity.  Al's new book 'Spark' is aimed at igniting our God-given creativity.  Today Justin and Bell...

Angela Tilby is a broadcaster, writer, theological educator and priest in the Church of England, which is the topic of her latest literary offering - 'Good Faith: Why England needs its church'. Angela joins Justin and Belle for an episode (recorded on the day the Church of England installed a new Archbishop of Canterbury) to discuss whether people have good reason to be disenchanted with some of o...

Amy Orr-Ewing is an international speaker, theologian, and public apologist for the Christian faith. Her new book ‘Forgiveness’ looks at how to reclaim the power of forgiveness in a culture of outrage and fear. She joins Justin and Belle to re-enchant the concept of forgiveness in an often unforgiving world. For 'Forgiveness': https://forgiveness.amyorr-ewing.com/  If you found this conversat...

N.T. (Tom) Wright is Research Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews and Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. \Having written close to one hundred books, he is, undoubtedly, one of the most trusted and influential teachers of the Christian story in the 21st Century. In this conversation, he joins Belle and Justin to speak of 'God's Ho...

Please note: this conversation was recorded prior to the war in Iran. Daniel Taub is a former diplomat who served as Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2011 to 2015. He has been a senior negotiator in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and a member of Israel's negotiation team in the Israel-Syrian negotiations. His new book ‘Beyond Dispute’ draws on the wisdom of the Talmud to redis...

Malcolm Guite is a beloved poet, storyteller, Anglican priest, and academic. He is author of numerous books including the Faith Hope and Poetry, Lifting thr Veil: Imagination and the Kingdom of God. As well as his latest offering - his first installment of a mighty four-volume work - Galahad and the Grail.  It really was only a matter of time until Malcolm found his way into the world of Re-E...

Martin Shaw is a storyteller and mythologist who joined Re-Enchanting two years ago to describe his mystical encounter during a forest vigil that led to his embrace of Christianity. His new book ‘Liturgies of the Wild’ weaves his own journey with the many folk tales and stories he has gathered throughout his life to re-enchant the God story for a new generation of seekers. For Martin Shaw: https:/...

Adjoa Andoh MBE is an award-winning actress, passionate social activist, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.  Whether it be on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, on the screen as Bridgerton’s formidable Lady Danbury, or behind closed doors as a judge for the Booker Prize - Adjoa has helped to tell and share some of our most beloved and cherished stories.  So, in this ep...

Professor Alec Ryrie is Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University and author of many books including his most recent – ‘The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It ’. Alec explains the thesis at the core of his book, and why modern history’s most notorious villain is still shaping our cultural and moral imagination. For 'The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It' https://ww...

Nick Mulvey is a Mercury Prize nominated singer-songwriter. His two latest albums, Dark Harvest Pt 1 and 2, chart his search for the transcendent. His longing for re-enchantment and his captivation with the Christian story.  In this episode of Re-Enchanting, Nick tells Belle about the tension between success and humility, the spiritual aspects of writing and performing his music, and the twis...

AJ Sherrill pastors St Peter's Church in Charleston, South Carolina. He is the author of ‘Rediscovering Christmas: Surprising insights into the story you thought you knew’. He joins Belle and Justin to re-enchant… Christmas. For AJ Sherrill: https://www.ajsherrill.org/  If you found this conversation interesting, Seen & Unseen, the creators of Re-Enchanting, offers thousands of articles e...

Molly Worthen is an academic and journalist who has spent much of her career chronicling the history of religion in the USA. Two years ago she joined Justin and Belle for Re-Enchanting, to talk about her own unlikely journey to faith as an adult convert to Christianity.  Today she returns to talk about her new book ‘Spellbound’ - charting America’s love affair with charismatic leaders in reli...

Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin MBE is Bishop of Dover and Bishop in Canterbury. An utter trailblazer: she is the Church of England’s first black female bishop, was the first female Chaplain to the Speaker to the House of Commons and a Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II. She is also the author of her autobiography – The Girl from Montego Bay – in which she shares her story with raw and unflinching honesty....

Rich Villodas is the Brooklyn-born lead pastor of New Life Fellowship in New York City. He is the author of several books including the award winning 'Deeply Formed Life'.  He joins Belle and Justin to talk about his new book 'Waiting For Jesus - An Advent Invitation to Prayer and Renewal'. For 'Waiting For Jesus': https://www.amazon.co.uk/Waiting-Jesus-Devotional-Readings-Christmas/dp/184604...

Andrew Ollerton is a theologian and pastor who works with the Bible Society and developed The Bible Course. His latest publication is ‘God’s Book: An Honest Look at the Bible's 7 Toughest Topics’. A significant rise in Bible sales has been reported in the past year… as people apparently seek re-enchantment through the story of Scripture, what sort of questions will they encounter along the way? An...

Ashley Lande is an artist and author whose book ’The Thing That Would Make Everything Okay Forever’ tells her story of using psychedelics as a search for re-enchantment, and her path to faith in Christ as she began to encounter the dark side of trips and transcendent experiences. She talks to Belle and Justin about her journey. For Ashley Lande: https://www.ashleylande.com/  For Seen & Un...

The Re-Enchanting podcast from Seen & Unseen speaks to guests seeking to re-enchant our secular world with the Christian vision of reality.    Co-hosts Belle Tindall and Justin Brierley will be joined by Bishop Graham Tomlin in a live audience edition of the podcast. Together they’ll explore why a ’surprising rebirth’ of belief in God seems to be underway in the West and how the chur...

Recorded live at Bradford Literature Festival, Belle Tindall brings together three of the most influential voices of the moment: Chine McDonald, Lamorna Ash and Francis Spufford. Together, they speak about what belief is, what it isn't, and how people are navigating our 'age of crisis'. Not only is this our first ever live recording, it's truly a conversation not to be missed.  If you found t...

Bear Grylls is an adventurer and survival expert who has become known to millions through his TV shows, documentaries and writing. His most recent book is ’The Greatest Story Every Told’, an account of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus told through the eyes of 5 eyewitnesses.  Justin and Belle talk to Bear about his own life and faith journey and the inspiration behind his new project...

Ross Douthat is a columnist for the New York Times and the author of 'Believe: Why everyone should be religious'. He joins Belle and Justin to talk about why religion is good for us, and to give some pointers for how the average agnostic may be able to find their way to faith. For Ross Douthat: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Believe-Why-Everyone-Should-Religious/dp/0310367581 For Seen And Unseen: https:...

Donna Freitas is a scholar, teacher, writer, and author of fiction and non-fiction for both adults and teenagers. Her most recent book ‘Wishful Thinking: How I lost my faith and why I want to find it’ is a spiritual memoir of her Catholic upbringing and adult search for God. Justin and Belle talk to Donna about losing and seeking faith Donna Freitas: https://www.donnafreitas.com/wishful-thinking/...

Nadim Ednan-Laperouse OBE is founder and trustee (along with his wife, Tanya) of The Natasha Allergy Research Foundation – which was established in the name of Nadim and Tanya’s daughter, Natasha, who died as a result of an allergic reaction to a baguette which did not have the correct information on its packaging. The story of Natasha’s death captured the attention of the nation and is still insp...