Comment

Columnists and commentators focus a Christian lens on the news stories of the day. Comment is one of four key themes covered by Seen & Unseen.

Article
  1. Character
  2. Comment
Two people sit beside each other working on laptops, One looks askance to the other who frowns.

Work isn’t working, it’s killing us

Cameron Wiltshire-Plant
We mistake the nature of work and our purpose within it.
1min read
Article
  1. Belief
A man sits and speaks, against a background of a bookcase.

Dawkins is wrong about the nature of belief

Yaroslav Walker
You can’t rejoice in its collapse and like its cultural inheritance too.
5min read
Article
  1. Comment
  2. Easter
A family look at the concrete shell and remains of a bombed building.

The Friday world of the Middle East at Easter

Todd Deatherage
Violence begets violence in a zero sum world.
7min read
Article
  1. Comment
  2. Easter
Preisdent Putin stands behind a lectern with a gold door and Russian flag behind him.

Raw politics: any room for hope?

Owen Gallacher
The high stakes of Easter can confront the natural order.
3min read
Article
  1. Culture
A woman stand in front of a large video screen displaying the Space Invaders title, hold her hands out in front of her.

Fun is dead

Simon Walters
When video games turn play into work, we need to play without fear of consequences.
4min read
Article
  1. Comment
A parade particpant dressed as a bishop in green vestments with a false beard walks down a street.

Be more St Patrick

Jamie Mulvaney
How did the cultural icon win the hearts of the people that enslaved him?
3min read
Essay
  1. Comment
A woman looks down slightly, smiling.

Sarah Everard: she was 'exactly like us'

Belle Tindall
An anniversary of anguish deserves the miracle of our attention.
5min read
Article
  1. Comment
  2. Politics
A winning candidate at an election address the audience from a lectern while the loosing candidates look on

The moral sugar high of the protest vote

Yaroslav Walker
We shouldn’t give politicians bloody noses over insurmountable single issues.
6min read
Article
  1. Comment
  2. Freedom of Belief
A large, modern cubiod building with a series of thin external pillars is seen from low down against a sunny blue sky

Beyond the glitz: the Gulf States and belief

Andrew Thompson
Religious tolerance amid the skyscrapers.
7min read
Article
  1. Comment
  2. Politics
A TV roundtable discussion with five people against a backdrop of Parliament.

Claims of institutional racism let politicians off the hook

George Pitcher
They need to be mindful of something else baked into our institutions.
4min read
Article
  1. Comment
  2. Mental Health
a young man looks pensive as he answers a questuon while sitting in a fancy room.

What Bobby Brazier, Jo Marsh and Eleanor Rigby have in common

Belle Tindall
A public health campaign asks influencers if they are lonely.
5min read
Article
  1. Comment
  2. Politics
A young woman in a blue suit stands at a wooden box in a parliamentary debating chamber looking upward while speaking.

Politics needs some deep stirring emotion

Henna Cundill
In politics, the struggle between our reason and desire is a fair fight.
5min read