Culture

Our curated articles offering new takes on the big themes and questions in our culture. Plus reviews of books, film, media and experiences. Culture is one of four key themes covered by Seen & Unseen.

Article
  1. AI
  2. Culture
Two construction workers stand and talk with a humanoid AI colleague.
AI might just help us with life’s dilemmas, if we are responsible.
10min read
Podcast
  1. Culture
  2. Podcasts
A casually dressed man perches on railing balancing, clasping his hands and looking around.
The big questions of our experience. Is temperance vital? What's more real than raw politics? And, are we loved and missed?
1min read
Review
  1. Books
  2. Culture
A woman in 18th century clothes sits within a windowsill reading a book
A ‘fashionable goodness’ lay at the heart of the author and her writing.
6min read
Review
  1. Books
  2. Culture
A poet stands and speaks, raising an arm.
The death-haunted yet lyrical, joyful and moving poet for a new generation.
5min read
Article
  1. Culture
  2. War & peace
An orthodox cathedral, with prominent roof domes.
An audience with a crown prince tells the story of troubled lands and resilient inhabitants.
4min read
Article
  1. Culture
  2. Politics
A marbles staircase rises on four sides of a chamber.
Local government could be a place of humanity and beauty more than lifeless language and procedures.
6min read
Podcast
  1. Culture
  2. Podcasts
A woman sits and speaks into a desktop microphone and holds both hands up and out expressively.
Belle and Justin talk to Lisa about unique challenges that people of colour face when it comes to Christian faith.
1min read
Essay
  1. AI
  2. Culture
In the style of an icon of the Council of Nicea, theologians look on as a cyborg and humanoid AI shake hands
As AI takes on tasks once exclusively human, we start to doubt ourselves. We need to set the balance right.
9min read
Podcast
  1. Culture
  2. Podcasts
Jon Tilkin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
We are one! We're revisiting some popular articles: joy at a Jacob Collier concert, and NT Wright on Easter, creation and justice.
1min 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.
When video games turn play into work, we need to play without fear of consequences.
4min read
Article
  1. AI
  2. Culture
An angel of death lays a hand of a humanioid robot that has died amid a data centre
Those programming truthfulness can learn a lot from mortality.
5min read
Podcast
  1. Culture
  2. Podcasts
A man sits at a desk and looks up and gestures with his hand.
Belle and Justin talk with Jonathan about the symbolic patterns that underlie our experience of the world.
1min read