Seen & Unseen Aloud: new episode

'Messianic' politicians, Bridgerton and AI.

Natalie Garrett

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

Two politicians, stand with one arm around each other and the other arms raised.

Labour Party Scotland launch event.

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This week: Bex Chapman unlock's Bridgerton's complex identity coding, Cameron Wiltshire-Plant advises his younger self not to believe in the messianic hype of politicians, and Daniel Kim suggests that AI's dominance could unleash our very humanity.

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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.

NASA, via Wikimedia Commons.

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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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