This week, Rick Hansen explores the worlds of Apple TV's Severance through the lens of Blaise Pascal; George Pitcher asks how a supposedly "Godly nation" can have such extensive levels child poverty and Claire Williams asks the biggest question of all, what makes us human?
However you choose to spend the festive period, we hope these reflections spark meaningful conversations and moments of stillness this Advent.
Episode 1: Learning to find joy on Team Christmas, by psychologist Roger Bretherton
The clinical and coaching psychologist investigates the bone-deep satisfaction in the hard work of hosting Christmas at home and why the act has now become a spiritual discipline for him.
Episode 2: This is love, actually by Cameron Wiltshire Plant
The Leicestershire vicar explains that while the meet-cutes are abundant in the Christmas movie staple, it’s the sibling storyline that strikes at the truest meaning of love: God’s sacrifice.
Episode 3: My Boxing Day anti-climax, by Jonny Torrance
The priest and theologian ponders whether, once the most wonderful time of year has come and gone, anything really has changed and why the Christian faith also contends with this reality.
