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. Character
  2. Culture
Sarah Mullally and Jemimah Rodrigues

Rodrigues and Mullally: rewriting history with bat and mitre

Henry Corbett
A match-winning innings and the rise to Archbishop both speak of the quiet power of possibility
4min read
Review
  1. Culture
  2. Film & TV
An actor playing Bruce Springsteen walks down a dark street, hands in jacket pocket.

Deliverance in the dark: Springsteen’s Nebraska and the scars that shaped it

Giles Gough
His starkest album emerged from a season of pain, where family, faith, and music collided
4min read
Review
  1. Books
  2. Culture
A reader sits on a sofa with a raised leg and holds a book

The book, the ritual, and the reader

Tom Rippon
Season 7 of Re-Enchanting explores how books shape our habits and our search for meaning
5min read
Review
  1. Art
  2. Culture
A 17th Century painting of Moses and the brazen cross.

Can we stop killing each other?

Jonathan Evens
How art, theology, and moral imagination confront our oldest instinct
5min read
Explainer
  1. Attention
  2. Culture
King Charles saltues.

Keep calm and don’t cry: does Remembrance have emotional limits?

Henna Cundill
We gather to grieve—but only in ways that won’t make others uncomfortable
4min read
Article
  1. Character
  2. Culture
Frankstein stares our from his covered face.

We need a sense of shame - but need mercy even more

Belle Tindall
Shame may be necessary, but only if it can be defeated
6min read
Review
  1. Culture
  2. Film & TV
A child and E.T. ride a BMX bike across a moon lit sky.

Here's why E.T. is in my list of top Halloween films

Yaroslav Walker
What Halloween films reveal about our fears, our families, and our fondness for the ridiculous
8min read
Review
  1. Culture
  2. Film & TV
Dressed in Victorian clothes, two brothers raise their arms together.

Wanted, not wasted: the older brother who couldn’t lead

Will Fagan
In Peaky Blinders and House of Guinness, Steven Knight shows being needed—not being perfect—transforms
10min read
Review
  1. Community
  2. Culture
K-Popm Demon Hunters lean forward wielding weapons

I came for the demon-fighting pop stars and stayed for the existential crisis

Harry Gibbins
A Netflix kids’ film made me rethink shame, friendship, and my Spotify algorithm
7min read
Article
  1. AI - Artificial Intelligence
  2. Community
A cyborg like figure opens the door to a classroom.

Artificial Intelligence needs these school lessons to avoid a Frankenstein fail

Joel Pierce
To learn and to learn to care are inseparable
5min read
Article
  1. Culture
  2. Suffering
Blue evil eye charms hang among a jewellery display

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

Becky Ruth
Faith goes beyond culture in my beloved Türkiye
5min read
Review
  1. Culture
  2. Digital
A film character talks to an angel in the street who has wings on the back of his coat.

Heaven can wait: the gig economy can’t

Giles Gough
Good Fortune skewers modern work culture with a celestial twist
5min read