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Karen Swallow Prior: re-enchanting evangelicalism

Belle and Justin speak to Karen about imagination in faith.

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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Karen Swallow Prior is a Professor of English Literature and an award-winning author. Her most recent book is The Evangelical Imagination: How stories, images and metaphors created a culture in Crisis.

Belle and Justin speak to Karen about the role of the imagination in faith, what the term evangelical means today and whether it can be re-enchanted…

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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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Seen & Unseen Aloud: new episode

Listen now: time travel by train, truth telling drama, and Navalny's thirst for righteousness.

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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Commemorations of Alexei Navalny, Berlin.
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This week we hear about James Sampson-Foster's lesson in time travel as he waits for a delayed train; George Pitcher commends the story telling of ITV's docu-dramas as truth telling and Michael Bird contemplates the Christian faith that motivated Alexei Navalny's dangerous thirst for righteousness;