Seen & Unseen Aloud: cosy, beauty, and loving your neighbour

Making the mundane meaningful, finding solace, and embracing a touch of doubt.

Natalie Garrett

Natalie produces and narrates The Seen & Unseen Aloud podcast. She's an Anglican minister and a trained actor.

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In this episode, Belle Tindall gets cosy and looks to make the mundane meaningful; Katherine Amphlett tells a very personal and poignant story of a grieving family finding solace and God's presence in natural beauty; on the anniversary of the conflict in the Middle East, Graham Tomlin urges the importance of loving our enemies and embracing a touch of doubt about the certainty of our moral case.

Podcast

Addiction

Culture

Psychology

Re-enchanting

21 February 2024

1 min read

Lauren Windle: re-enchanting recovery from addiction

Lauren Windle talks addiction, recovery and love with Belle and Justin.

Nick Jones

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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Lauren Windle is a journalist, author, speaker and presenter who specialises in faith, recovery and love. She is the author of Notes on Love: being single and dating in a marriage-obsessed church and the upcoming Notes on Feminism: Being a woman in a male-led church. Justin and Belle chat with Lauren about her own story of addiction, recovery and faith, the intersection between Christianity and feminism from her perspective within the church, and the pervasive questions being asked by today’s culture.

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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?