Seen & Unseen Aloud: harvest, creed, conscientious objections

Why bother celebrating harvest? The game-changing Nicene Creed, and objecting to assisted dying

Natalie Garrett

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

A ink drawing of Constantine the Emperor on a throne listening to people showing him books.

Constantine and the council.

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This week, George Pitcher asks why we still bother celebrating Harvest; Jane Williams explains why the Nicene Creed was such a total game-changer and Henna Cundill explores the proposed legislation around Assisted Dying from the point of view of Conscientious Objectors.

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4 October 2024

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Andrew Davison: aliens and incarnation

Oxford's Regius Professor of Theology on what life on other planets could mean.

Nick Jones

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

Tarantula Nebula, by the James Webb Space Telescope.

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What does the possibility of life on other planets mean for the incarnation? Why is there so much fear and panic around theology? Is it merely a set of rigid rules, or is it something more expansive than that?

These are just some of the questions pondered by our three presenters – Jane Williams, Michael Lloyd and Graham Tomlin – along with Andrew Davison, Canon and Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University.

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