Re-Enchanting

Glen 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,...

Chine 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...

Richard 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...

This 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...

Molly 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 Yor...

Frank 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 Ligh...

Justin 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.

Vishal 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 b...

Dubbed '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....

Celebrated 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.seen...

What 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...

People 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 prospe...

Louise 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 relationshi...

Can 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 swimm...

Dr 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. Sh...

Francis 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 Christi...

In 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/podcast The...

There’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,...