Re-enchanting... new atheism

Co-host Justin Brierley becomes the guest on this episode of Re-Enchanting. Regular co-host Belle Tindall is joined by Bishop Graham Tomlin, as they and Justin explore what happened to the new atheism movement.

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Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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Richard Dawkins and the new atheists began a popular anti-God movement in the mid 2000s. But why did the movement sputter out? And could we be seeing the start of a new conversation on God?

Re-Enchanting co-host Justin Brierley becomes the guest in this edition of the show as Belle Tindall and Graham Tomlin interview him about his new book 'The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God: Why new atheism grew old and seclar thinkers are considering Christianity again.'

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There’s more to life than the world we can see. Re-Enchanting is a podcast from Seen & Unseen recorded at Lambeth Palace Library, the home of the Centre for Cultural Witness. Justin Brierley and Belle Tindall engage faith and spirituality with leading figures in science, history, politics, art and education. Can our culture be re-enchanted by the vision of Christianity?

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Re-enchanting

10 November 2023

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Re-enchanting... kindness, equality and progress

Author and speaker Glen Scrivener discusses ’The Air We Breathe’ - a guide to ‘how we all came to believe in freedom, kindness, progress and equality’.

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Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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Glen Scrivener is an author, speaker, filmmaker and director of the charity Speak Life. His most recent book ’The Air We Breathe’ has been widely praised as a guide to ‘how we all came to believe in freedom, kindness, progress and equality’. Glen’s book is a whistle stop tour of 2,000 years of history showing why it was the Christian revolution that gave the West its moral instincts on compassion, equality, consent, freedom and progress. Fo