Holly 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’...
May 29, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Elizabeth 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 c...
May 22, 2024•59 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Joshua 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 L...
May 15, 2024•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 1
Re-enchanting is back! Join Justin, Belle and a host of guests as they explore how Christianity can re-enchant culture, politics, the arts, the sciences, history, and so much more. Season four starts this Wednesday, with episodes from poet and songwriter Joshua Luke Smith, host of The Sacred podcast Elizabeth Oldfield, journalist Ben Sixsmith and many more. You can get Re-enchanting wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 14, 2024•2 min
Lisa 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-e...
Mar 20, 2024•58 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Jonathan 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 mean...
Mar 13, 2024•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 9
Jessica 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,...
Mar 06, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Milton 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/podcast There’s more to life than the world we can see. Re-Enchanting is a podcast fr...
Feb 28, 2024•54 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Lauren 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’...
Feb 21, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 6
David 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.c...
Feb 14, 2024•50 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Professor 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 tack...
Feb 07, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Martin 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, mytho...
Jan 31, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Helen 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...
Jan 24, 2024•57 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Rory 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...
Jan 17, 2024•57 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Belle & Justin return for season three of Re-Enchanting, talking to leading figures in science, history, politics, art and education. This season we welcome Rory Stewart, Jonathan Aitken, Helen Lewis, Lauren Windle, David Bennett, Sabine Alkire, Dr Martin Shaw and more. Despite the increasingly scientific and secular age we live in, many people are still searching for a bigger story to live by. Season three will feature a mix of guests - both with and without faith - and explore how those wh...
Jan 15, 2024•1 min
Esau 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 diffe...
Dec 07, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Kate 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. Just...
Nov 29, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Professor 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 ...
Nov 22, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 18
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 shap...
Nov 15, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 17
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, equality, consent, freedom and progress. For The Air We Breathe: https://speaklife.org.uk/books/ Fo...
Nov 08, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 16
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 as the culture around it? What has helped Chine to keep faith in a vision of truly multicultural kin...
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 15
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 grew old and secular thinkers are considering Christianity again.' For the book: https://justinbrier...
Oct 25, 2023•53 min•Season 2Ep. 14
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 and Unseen. Esmé Partridge is a writer and MPhil candidate in the Philosophy of Religion at the Uni...
Oct 18, 2023•56 min•Season 2Ep. 13
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 York Times, The Atlantic and The New Yorker. But Molly’s story took an interesting turn recently. Havin...
Oct 11, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 12
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 Lightning Seeds, penned ’Three Lions' the best known football anthem of modern times. But Frank’s other ...
Oct 04, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 11
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.
Oct 03, 2023•3 min
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 burning and infanticide. Belle and Justin also reflect on past guests as this tenth episode marks the...
Jun 14, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 10
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. For Re-Enchanting: https://www.seenandunseen.com/podcast There’s more to life than the world we can...
Jun 07, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 9
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.seenandunseen.com/podcast There’s more to life than the world we can see. Re-Enchanting is a podcast fro...
May 31, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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 how her novels and essays have sought to re-enchant the human story. For Re-Enchanting: https://www....
May 24, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 7
