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Will the owner of ‘Halloween’ please come and collect it?

A mutant festival of saints, spirits, and supermarket costumes resists...

2025-10-24

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The Danish Prime Minister is right - the West needs a spiritual rearmament

Christianity should challenge, not reflect, the cultural zeitgeist

2025-10-20

Dressing up in the dark: what Halloween reveals about our uneasy age

Why Halloween feels darker this year

2025-10-23

Protection from evil shouldn’t rely on a blue glass bead

Faith goes beyond culture in my beloved Türkiye

2025-10-23

Naming the same light: a gentle response to faith from the other side of belief

A response to my friend, Jonah

2025-10-22

Are you a narcissist?

We all have a little bit of narcissism in us – the question is whether we’re...

2025-10-21

The UN promised freedom of belief — but 80 years later, it’s still elusive

Flawed, fragile but still vital to those without a voice

2025-10-20

How London’s little festivals opened the door to my community

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2025-10-17

Natalie Bergman brings grief and joy to Union Chapel

A soul-soaked set turned personal tragedy into communal celebration

2025-10-16

When the seasons shift, so do we

Autumn brings beauty and melancholy in equal measure

2025-10-15

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Zombies: a philosopher's guide to the purpose-driven undead

Don’t dismiss zombiecore as lowbrow.

2024-10-24

Sinners is standout thanks to Ryan Coogler and his ‘no stupid people’ rule

A cleverly choreographed culture clash between the living and the un-dead.

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Peter Thiel and the Antichrist

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Wednesday works wonders bringing the outsiders in

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The Fantastic Four taught me about family, truth and the end of the world

The whole film has a grown-up sophistication about what really matters.

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Jane Austen’s satire helped her survive a dark culture

Amid folly and frailty, she allowed her characters the possibility of...

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Boom! I love this new Superman!

Eschewing ennui, it’s a great fairy tale for the modern age

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The short road from normality to evil

The Liverpool’s parade ramming reveals society’s watermark

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Heaven can wait: the gig economy can’t

Good Fortune skewers modern work culture with a celestial twist

2025-10-22

In an age of nihilism it's time to revisit The Dark Knight

Batman, the Joker, and the disaffected

2025-10-01

Natalie Bergman brings grief and joy to Union Chapel

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2025-10-16

From wheatfield to vineyard, can an ancient love story survive a replanting?

Ruth & Boaz finds new soil in rural Tennessee but struggles to grow

2025-10-15

Taylor Swift’s new album is fine, and that might be the problem

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2025-10-06

How black holes illuminate love’s greatest story

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What makes us human?

We've more in common with our ancient ancestors than we might like to think

2025-09-22

Deceit is integral to success in Destination X

Travel and trickery make for a miserable journey

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The summer we turned romantic

Belly, the other Taylor, and the defiant desire to get married

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Digital Culture

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Are AI chatbots actually demons in disguise?

Early Christian thinkers explain chatbots better than Silicon Valley does

Gabrielle Thomas

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2025-09-17

Do you believe in a coin called hope?

From fiat to faith: the rise of crypto evangelism

2025-08-18

Big Tech is gaslighting us into waste

After being nudged to ditch yet another working device, I’ve had enough

2025-10-13

Am I a project or a person?

What we lose when we AI tempts us to refuse our limits

Nathan Mladin

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Could thinking and feeling become futile pastimes in the future?

AI, and more, is eroding our agency, we need to act now

Jamie Mulvaney

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2025-08-29

How a card game, going off-grid, and a great teacher, shaped Bill Gates

A new biography explores the man who shaped the digital decades

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Beyoncé, reality, and The Four Seasons

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Line judges replaced by robots? You cannot be serious!

Wimbledon is about more than efficiency, it’s about humanity.

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What my film about the prodigal son really means

Our relentless focus on productivity devalues the things that make us human

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Only the rich will experience reality

We’re extinguishing our real world

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Political Culture

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Tim Farron: our politics is fragmenting, not polarising

Responding to Christian nationalism and the politicisation of religion

2025-09-22

Millions of children go hungry in a country that dares to call itself godly

The gospel of national greatness is less about grace and more about...

2025-09-25

The UN promised freedom of belief — but 80 years later, it’s still elusive

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Peter Thiel and the Antichrist

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I was angry and you called me Gammon: Gary from Blackpool, Charlie Kirk, and all these flags

A triptych of three faces of wrath poorly heard and poorly expressed

2025-09-17

I protested against the Unite The Kingdom protest

The need to see one another

2025-09-17

Charlie Kirk: the problem is not murder but anger

How to confront the rage in politics, in media, and in ourselves

2025-09-12

Free speech for me, but not for thee

A hate crime hoo-ha and the limits of free speech

2025-09-11

Rory Stewart’s search for the hero inside

Who could be heroes today?

2025-09-10

Podcasts

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A wild Belle, Sarah Mullally and 'defending our girls'.

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2025-10-20

Visionaries: Aquinas' reconciling of religion and reason

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Taylor Swift; the ABC & the Anti-Christ

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2025-10-13

Atheism discovers Christianity — just not the inconvenient bits

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The profound and profane at sporting events, plus cafe time

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Severance, poverty, and what makes us human

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2025-09-29

Protests, demonic chatbots and Charlie Kirk

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We need nuance, and theology, plus the summer we turned romantic

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2025-09-15

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Visionaries: Milton's indelible mark on poetry and politics

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2025-09-05

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Seen & Unseen Aloud, by Seen & Unseen

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GodPod, by Seen & Unseen

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Sport Culture

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Horror turns pro: when greatness demands blood

The pursuit of sporting glory turns into a fever-dream of sacrifice, madness...

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Surfing with Dostoevsky: what waves taught me about the journey

The water draws things out of us that we can’t see on our own

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Diogo Jota, Thomas Partey, and the right to privacy

Distressing stories show that publicity hinders grief but enables justice

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Artificial Intelligence

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ChatGPT’s answers on human desire left something to be desired

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AI deadbots are no way to cope with grief

The data we leave in the cloud will haunt and deceive those we leave behind.

Graham Tomlin

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Peter Thiel and the Antichrist

The PayPal founder’s obsession with the Beast is nothing new

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Freedom of Belief

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Iranians long for regime change, but weigh up the cost

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Belle Tindall

Belle is the staff writer at Seen & Unseen and co-host of its Re-enchanting podcast.

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