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Elizabeth Oldfield: re-enchanting... the seven deadly sins

Nick Jones
On the Re-enchanting podcast, Elizabeth Oldfield talks about wisdom, our common life and the things that most deeply bind us.
1 min read
Authored on
2024-05-22
Explainer
Creed
Seven Deadly Sins
Seven Deadly Sins

Sin: explained

Graham Tomlin
From rottweilers to North African bishops, Graham Tomlin kicks off the Seven Deadly Sins series with an introduction to the unpopular idea of ‘sin’.
7 min read
Authored on
2023-07-10
Explainer
Creed
Seven Deadly Sins
An abstract shadow of a human reaching an hand skyward is overlaid by a trace of orange line that becomes a circle

Reverse psychology: understand goodness then sin

Roger Bretherton
Psychologist Roger Bretherton concludes our series on the seven deadly sins with a subversive proposition: we don’t understand sin because we don’t understand goodness.
9 min read
Authored on
2023-09-12
Article
Creed
Economics
Piles of money

Greed: “No, I’ll never have enough”

Jane Williams
In the third of a series on the Seven Deadly Sins, Jane Williams highlights how Greed destroys both individuals and societies.
6 min read
Authored on
2023-07-24
Article
Creed
Eating
Ramen

Gluttony’s unconscious self-image of emptiness

Graham Tomlin
In the seventh of a series on the Seven Deadly Sins, Graham Tomlin digests gluttony’s distorting obsession with food.
7 min read
Authored on
2023-08-21
Explainer
Creed
Seven Deadly Sins
Green Lime

Envy: jealousy’s evil cousin

Roger Bretherton
In the second of a series on the Seven Deadly Sins, Roger Bretherton investigates the psychological and moral impact of envy on its victims.
7 min read
Authored on
2023-07-17
Explainer
Creed
Seven Deadly Sins
Illustration of unmade bed

Sloth’s languid lack of passion

Graham Tomlin
In the appropriately last in a series on the Seven Deadly Sins, Graham Tomlin looks at what’s lost to life when sloth sets in.
7 min read
Authored on
2023-08-28
Explainer
Creed
Seven Deadly Sins
Illustration of Aubergine

Lust: disordered desire

Belle Tindall
In the fourth of a series on the Seven Deadly Sins, Belle Tindall explores how Lust minimises or sensationalises sex and desire.
6 min read
Authored on
2023-07-31
Article
Ambition
Creed
Illustration of skull

Pride: self-obsessed isolation

Jonathan Aitken
In the sixth of a series on the Seven Deadly Sins, Jonathan Aitken identifies Pride as egotism with a capital E and the cause of his own royal flush of crises.
7 min read
Authored on
2023-08-14
Explainer
Creed
Easter
Head and shoulders image of a man with closed eyes, on his forehead is an ashen cross.

Identifying as human has deadly implications

Barnabas Aspray
The incarnation and an execution impacts humanity.
4 min read
Authored on
2024-02-14
Article
Culture
Digital
A woman stand in front of a large video screen displaying the Space Invaders title, hold her hands out in front of her.

Fun is dead

Simon Walters
When video games turn play into work, we need to play without fear of consequences.
4 min read
Authored on
2024-03-18
Article
Creed
Seven Deadly Sins
Illustration of a burning wick

Anger: the dragon’s wrath

James Mumford
In the fifth of a series on the Seven Deadly Sins, James Mumford encounters Anger, and reflects that its object is no mere object.
8 min read
Authored on
2023-08-07
Article
Creed
Sin
An upset man holds his hands on his head as he misses a bus.

No mercy on the Megabus

Jenny Lander
Why is sin such a sickly, sticky thing in the human heart?
4 min read
Authored on
2024-04-11
Article
Comedy
Culture
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Edinburgh's grim endurance test of character

James Cary
How a comedian survived the Fringe and kept going back.
5 min read
Authored on
2023-08-22
Podcast
Biology
Podcasts
A man sits and talks to the camera.

Iain McGilchrist: re-enchanting the brain

Nick Jones
Can we re-enchant our view of the world by re-engaging a ‘right hemispheric’ view of life, love and faith?
1 min read
Authored on
2024-07-16
Article
Community
Creed
a multi-paned window mural shows people while amid it are broken window panes.

In the city of broken windows

Jamie Mulvaney
Our fractures become fractal, breaking bigger and bigger windows.
3 min read
Authored on
2024-11-13
Article
Change
Psychology
Under a tree, backlit by a sun set, two people sit in chairs outside and talk.

Recovery came softly

From Mockingbird
A vision of grace amid an eating disorder.
5 min read
Authored on
2024-08-27
Podcast
Christmas culture
Community
A field of ploughed red soil leads down to a hedged lane.

Seen & Unseen Aloud: the editor's cut

Nick Jones
Need a little Christmas day recuperation? Sit back, relax and listen to a little Christmas compilation picked by senior editor Nick Jones.
1 min read
Authored on
2023-12-25
Podcast
Culture
Eating
From a darkly shadowed face, a single illuminated eye stares.

Seen & Unseen Aloud

Nick Jones
Listen to narrated articles. The challenges of ADHD, how identifying as human has deadly implications, and some wisdom around fasting.
1 min read
Authored on
2024-02-19
Column
Culture
Royalty
In the style of a Rembrandt painting Prince Harry embraces his father King Charles.

Death focuses our minds on what really matters

George Pitcher
From ballet tales to royal soap opera, stories shed light on Lent's dark mortality.
4 min read
Authored on
2024-02-14
Review
Books
Culture
The gaunt face of a dishevelled man stares into the distance

Small Things Like These: putting the spotlight on backstage goodness

Kevin Hargaden
What it means for a film to be good.
4 min read
Authored on
2024-11-08
Article
Creed
Mental Health
In a darkened room, a man's angry face is lit as he rests on arms folded tightly around it.

It’s OK to be angry about this, right?

Anthony Baker
Anger's real gift is the desire for action.
5 min read
Authored on
2024-02-19
Review
Culture
Film & TV
A bondsman looks to a colleague.

How to do the Devil’s work in modern America

Giles Gough
The Bondsman ‘literal evil’ fits so easily into today.
4 min read
Authored on
2025-04-09
Explainer
Addiction
Creed
Two stuffed cheeseburgers are carried on a tray.

When indulgence and inhibition are on the menu

Ryan Gilfeather
As the time of feasting concludes, and resolutions start to crumble, Ryan Gilfeather takes some lessons on how and when to say 'no more'.
5 min read
Authored on
2024-01-03
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Creed
A station concourse with a light well above.
The angels called Melanie or Dave that dwell among us
George Pitcher
Belief
Creed
Weirdness
4 min read
Aerial view of a yellow-jacketed police forming a cordon within a crowd.
The short road from normality to evil
Jonathan Rowlands
Creed
Monsters
5 min read
Culture
Crime scene tape
Why are we so obsessed with true crime?
Jamie Mulvaney
Culture
Justice
Trauma
4 min read
Lewis Capaldi sings with eyes closes, holding a mic and its stand
Why we loved Lewis Capaldi’s Glastonbury comeback
Jessica Norman
Culture
Mental Health
Music
1 min read
Comment
Statues of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza point toward a windmill
Reading Don Quixote is making me a better person
Jonathan Rowlands
Books
Comment
Language
5 min read
A crowd of people stand in the side steps of the Lincoln Memorial
Our public discourse needs responsible rhetoric before it is too late
Tom Dove
Comment
Language
Politics
5 min read
Change
A man walks up a cobble street.
The book for those who didn't live happily ever after
Jean Kabasomi
Books
Change
Purpose
S&U interviews
14 min read
Female prisoners hug their children who have climbed across a table to them.
Four things I’ve learnt from working with prisoners
Daniel Bey
Care
Change
Justice
4 min read

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