Jonathan Pageau: re-enchanting just about everything

Belle and Justin talk with Jonathan about the symbolic patterns that underlie our experience of the world.

Nick Jones

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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Jonathan Pageau is a French Canadian icon carver, public speaker and YouTuber exploring the symbolic patterns that underlie our experience of the world. He's also the editor of the Orthodox Arts Journal and host of the Symbolic World blog and podcast.

Jonathan is also known for his friendship with Jordan Peterson, another thinker invested in symbolism, psychology and pointing people back to Christianity as the modern West navigates a ‘meaning crisis’.

Jonathan talk to Justin and Belle about meaning, symbolism, atheism and the meaning crisis as we ask whether we can re-enchant… just about everything!

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Re-enchanting

7 February 2024

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Sabina Alkire: re-enchanting the human faces behind poverty

Professor Sabina Alkire talks about how we can re-enchant our capacity for justice and compassion in tackling global poverty

Nick Jones

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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Professor Sabina Alkire directs the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative at the University of Oxford. Sabina has been involved in developing methods of measuring multidimensional poverty and her work is used to address development issues in countries around the world.

Sabina is ordained in the Anglican Church. Belle and Justin explore how her Christian faith maps onto her work in engaging poverty and development and how we can re-enchant our capacity for justice and compassion in tackling global poverty.