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, Andrew speaks to Belle about the creative process of 'world-building', the role of the imagination and what can be found when we come to the end of words. For more from Andrew: https://www.andrew-peterson.com/homeIf you found this conversation interesting, Seen & Unseen, the creators of Re-Enchanting, offers thousands of articles exploring how the Christian faith helps us understand the modern world. Discover more here: www.seenandunseen.com  

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 makers and churches understand and engage with the use (and at times misuse) of Christian language and symbols in rallies, protests and politics. Is there a better way to pursue love of country and Christ? Justin asks Alicia whether we can re-enchant…. Christian Nationalism.For Alicia Edmund: https://www.eauk.org/author/alicia-edmundIf you found this conversation interesting, Seen & Unseen, the creators of Re-Enchanting, offers thousands of articles exploring how the Christian faith helps us understand the modern world. Discover more here: www.seenandunseen.com  

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 aspects of re-enchantment in contemporary culture.For 'The Sacred Ache': https://spckpublishing.co.uk/the-sacred-ache If you found this conversation interesting, Seen & Unseen, the creators of Re-Enchanting, offers thousands of articles exploring how the Christian faith helps us understand the modern world. Discover more here: www.seenandunseen.com  

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 Belle ask how, in an age of AI, distraction and noise, we re-enchant… creativity and imagination. For 'Spark' by Al Gordon: https://algordon.co/spark/ If you found this conversation interesting, Seen & Unseen, the creators of Re-Enchanting, offers thousands of articles exploring how the Christian faith helps us understand the modern world. Discover more here: www.seenandunseen.com  

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 our oldest institutions and ponder the place fo the Church of England in our ever-changing cultural landscape.  If you found this conversation interesting, Seen & Unseen, the creators of Re-Enchanting, offers thousands of articles exploring how the Christian faith helps us understand the modern world. Discover more here: www.seenandunseen.com  

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 conversation interesting, Seen & Unseen, the creators of Re-Enchanting, offers thousands of articles exploring how the Christian faith helps us understand the modern world. Discover more here: www.seenandunseen.com  

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 Homecoming', arguably one of the most forgotten elements of the Christian worldview.For 'God's Homecoming' https://spckpublishing.co.uk/when-god-comes-home If you found this conversation interesting, Seen & Unseen, the creators of Re-Enchanting, offers thousands of articles exploring how the Christian faith helps us understand the modern world. Discover more here: www.seenandunseen.com

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 rediscover the Jewish art of constructive disagreement. He joins Belle and Justin to re-enchant… disagreement.For 'Beyond Dispute': https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beyond-Dispute-Rediscovering-constructive-disagreement/dp/1399815067  If you found this conversation interesting, Seen & Unseen, the creators of Re-Enchanting, offers thousands of articles exploring how the Christian faith helps us understand the modern world. Discover more here: www.seenandunseen.com  

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-Enchanting. In this conversation, Belle, Justin and Malcolm speak of poetry, beauty, old stories and slow reading. Together, they seek to re-enchanting myths and legends. For Galahad and the Grail: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Galahad-Grail-Merlins-Isle-1/dp/1786227126/ref=asc_df_1786227126?tag=bingshoppinga-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80470713939164&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=40877&hvtargid=pla-4584070184762788&psc=1&msclkid=4c396487aaa5167bd39a0d4109bc2dc3If you found this conversation interesting, Seen & Unseen, the creators of Re-Enchanting, offers thousands of articles exploring how the Christian faith helps us understand the modern world. Discover more here: www.seenandunseen.com