Seen & Unseen Aloud: Easter

The big questions of our experience. Is temperance vital? What's more real than raw politics? And, are we loved and missed?

Nick Jones

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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In this episode, to mark Easter Week, we are thinking about some of the biggest questions of the human experience: Barnabas Aspray explores the unfashionable but possibly vital virtue of temperance; Owen Gallacher asks whether Putin's reality is the most "real" reality or whether the events of Easter may point to something even more real and Nathan Betts reminds us that in our darkest moments, we are loved and missed by Someone.

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15 November 2024

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Sarah Irving-Stonebraker: re-enchanting the ahistorical age

In our age of self-invention, we are profoundly disconnected from the history that once gave us identity.

Nick Jones

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

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Sarah Irving-Stonebraker is an Australian historian whose new book Priests of History: stewarding the past in an ahistoric age, says that, in our age of self-invention, modern people are profoundly disconnected from the stories, practises and history that once gave them their identity.

Justin and Belle talk to Sarah about re-enchanting an ahistorical age and about her own journey from atheism to Christianity as a young academic at Cambridge and Oxford in the early 2000s.

Visit Sarah Irving-Stonebraker's web site. https://www.stonebraker.com.au/