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Christmas culture
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Reaching out of our comfort zones

At Christmas, Graham Tomlin reflects in the Financial Times on the need to break out of the social silos in which we live.

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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There is much more to the poverty gap than the income gap, writes Seen and Unseen founder Graham Tomlin. Contributing to the festive coverage of Europe's leading financial newspaper, Bishop Graham Tomlin encourages its readers to reach across the divide to those in need.

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Ziya Miral: global conflict and religion's role

Does religion shape violence or does violence shape religion?

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

a dirt barricade blocks a cross roads, behind which stands a roadside cross
A crossroads in Ukraine.
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Is John Lennon right, would all wars cease if religion were to vanish? And, finally, what is the theology of conflict? These are topical, real-time, questions – all of which are explored in this episode of GodPod, with the help of Dr Ziya Meral.

Ziya is a lecturer in International Studies and Deplomacy at SOAS (School of African and Oriental Studies), researcher and advisor specialising in global conflict and the role of religion.

For Ziya’s book: How Violence Shapes Religion: Belief and Conflict in the Middle East and Africa : Meral, Ziya: Amazon.co.uk: Books