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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 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.

Read more about Sabina's academic work.

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... The story of Jesus - Bear Grylls

Justin and Belle talk to Bear about his journey and the inspiration behind his new project

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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Bear Grylls is an adventurer and survival expert who has become known to millions through his TV shows, documentaries and writing. His most recent book is ’The Greatest Story Every Told’, an account of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus told through the eyes of five eyewitnesses

Justin and Belle talk to Bear about his own life and faith journey and the inspiration behind his new project as they re-enchant… the story of Jesus.

Visit the The Greatest Story Ever Told web site.