Seen & Unseen Aloud

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 May 5, 2024

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Discover Seen & Unseen articles. The best writing curated by our editors read aloud, sharing Christian perspectives on just about everything. 

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Episode Date
8th June 2026: Friction Maxxing; Exam Stress & Freya India
Jun 08, 2026
1st June 2026: Football, Gig Vibes and the Pornification of Thought
Jun 01, 2026
25th May 2026: Political Pessimism; Rowan Williams, and Russell Brand
May 25, 2026
18th May 2026: Prime Ministers, Nurses and the Devil Wears Prada
May 18, 2026
11th May 2026: King Charles III, Mary Bennet & Playing the Unplayables
May 11, 2026
4th May 2026: Mircro-retirement; Leaving Cards & Staying Hidden
May 04, 2026
27th April 2026: Artemis; Being Prime Minister and the Birthplace of Belief
Apr 27, 2026
20th April 2026: Manga Pirates; Parenthood and Raye
Apr 20, 2026
13th April 2026: Retrospective Birthday Compilation
Apr 13, 2026
6th April 2026: 3rd Birthday Compilation: Begging, the Death of Fun and a warm welcome back to Glastonbury
Apr 06, 2026
30th March 2026: Quiet Faith; the Manosphere & how Sin explains the Epstein story
Mar 30, 2026
23rd March 2026: S&U's 3rd Birthday; Death & Life; the Oscars
Mar 23, 2026
16th March 2026: James van der Beek; the moral imagination of the Left and parking with empathy
Mar 16, 2026
9th March 2026: Churchyard thoughts; Innocent questions & Outdated legal OS
Mar 09, 2026
2nd March 2026: Dancing Robots; Small Prophets & Digital Lent
Mar 02, 2026
23rd February 2026: Elizabeth Day; Alex Pretti and Shooting Up
Feb 23, 2026
16th February 2026: Euphoria; Bridgerton and A Third Way
Feb 16, 2026
9th February 2026: Hamnet; the Odyssey and AI
Feb 09, 2026
2nd February 2026: Burnham; Beckhams and Broken Britain
Feb 02, 2026
26th January 2026: Reverends in Football; Identity in Illness; Trump's Powerful Wanting
Jan 26, 2026
19th January 2026: Exorcism, Slow Fashion & Cultural Change
Jan 21, 2026
12th January 2026: Change; Stranger Things; Attention and Mindfulness
Jan 12, 2026
5th January 2026: Guarded Hopefulness at the start of 2026
Jan 05, 2026
29th December 2025: Graham Tomlin's Top 3 of 2025
Dec 29, 2025
22nd December 2025: Three favourite articles from 2025
Dec 22, 2025
15th December 2025: Shock of Christmas; Knives Out & baby Jesus being kidnapped
Dec 15, 2025
8th December 2025: Angels; Juries & Christmas Karma
Dec 08, 2025
1st December 2025: MI6; Elon Musk & the price of parenthood
Dec 01, 2025
24th November 2025: Alan Bennett; Rationality and the Budget
Nov 24, 2025
17th November 2025: BBC, bequeathing and being still
Nov 17, 2025
10th November 2025: Shame, Remembrance and Alice Roberts
Nov 10, 2025
3rd November 2025: Eccles, Older Brothers and a King & a Pope
Nov 03, 2025
27th October 2025: shifting seasons; Ruth & Boaz and Big Tech
Oct 27, 2025
20th October 2025: a Wild Belle, Sarah Mullally and Defending our Girls
Oct 20, 2025
13th October 2025: Taylor Swift; the ABC & the Anti-Christ
Oct 13, 2025
6th October 2025: Sacraments at Anfield; behaviour at the Ryder Cup & thinking in cafés
Oct 06, 2025
29th September 2025: Severance, child poverty & what makes us human
Sep 29, 2025
22nd September 2025: Protests; Demonic AI Chatbots & Charlie Kirk
Sep 22, 2025
15th September 2025: nuanced thought; theological debate & the summer we turned romantic
Sep 15, 2025
8th September 2025: Ed Sheeran's Irishness; Being school-ready & Tim Burton's Wednesday
Sep 08, 2025
1st September 2025: Wallis Island; Thursday Murder Club and Voting at 16
Sep 01, 2025
25th August 2025: Perfect Job; Bitcoin & Molly Mae
Aug 25, 2025
18th August 2025: Football, Disney and ChatGPT
Aug 18, 2025
11th August 2025: Language, Danny Kruger and the Fantastic Four
Aug 11, 2025
4th August 2025: Portofino; Neurodiversity diagnoses; McGovern's Unforgiveable
Aug 04, 2025
28th July 2025: Superman; the Seaside and the Salt Path
Jul 28, 2025
21st July 2025: Don Quixote and the Life of Christ at Wintershall
Jul 21, 2025
14th July 2025: Beyoncé; Reality and The Four Seasons
Jul 14, 2025
7th July 2025: Lewis Capaldi; Angels and Istanbul
Jul 07, 2025
30th June 2025: Prison Fellowship; Spotless Minds & a Culture of Death
Jun 30, 2025
23rd June 2025: Love: not an order, it's found within prayer and The Salt Path
Jun 23, 2025
16th June 2025: The ABC; Bear Grylls and Fashion's role in diversity
Jun 16, 2025
9th June 2025: Assisted Dying; Jane Austen & Politics in Gaza
Jun 09, 2025
2nd June 2025: Semi-colons; Race Across the World and The Book
Jun 02, 2025
26th May 2025: "Ordinary"; Third Space and lessons from Pope Leo
May 26, 2025
19th May 2025: Insta Judge; Thunderbolts* and the Mind & Body relationship
May 19, 2025
12th May 2025: The Met Gala, The Conclave and AGI
May 12, 2025
5th May 2025: Last One Laughing; AI and the Unruliness of Humanity; Diplomacy at a Funeral
May 05, 2025
28th April 2025: Pope Francis; chocolate seasons; smartphone games and Narnia
Apr 28, 2025
21st April 2025: Go Compare Spirituality; Football as Religion; Anxiety isn't a new invention
Apr 21, 2025
Seen & Unseen Aloud Easter Box set #8: Why the anthropologists miss the point of Easter
Apr 20, 2025
Seen & Unseen Aloud Easter Box set #7: Identifying as human has deadly implications
Apr 19, 2025
Seen & Unseen Aloud Easter Box set #6: top 5 movies for Good Friday
Apr 18, 2025
Seen & Unseen Aloud Easter Box set #5: making the vital visible
Apr 17, 2025
Seen & Unseen Aloud Easter Box set #4: Life before death?
Apr 16, 2025
Seen & Unseen Aloud Easter Box set #3: Pontius Pilate - lord of misrule
Apr 15, 2025
Seen & Unseen Aloud Easter Box set #2: a sensory journey through Lent and Easter
Apr 14, 2025
Seen & Unseen Aloud Easter Box set #1: NT Wright's When Creation & Justice Converge
Apr 13, 2025
7th April 2025: Frankenstein; Friendship and Assisted Dying
Apr 07, 2025
31st March 2025: Simnel Cake; Culture Wars, Amandaland & Assembly Bangers
Mar 31, 2025
24th March 2024: Adolescence, Witches and theological map-making
Mar 24, 2025
Seen & Unseen Aloud Easter [New Subscribers Boxset]
Mar 19, 2025
17th March 2025: With Love, Meghan; Giles Coren; Cathedrals and Communities
Mar 17, 2025
10th March 2025: The Passion in the White House; Creme Eggs; Timothée Chalamet & White Lotus
Mar 10, 2025
3rd March 2025: Rome, AI and place attachment at work
Mar 03, 2025
24th February 2025: Trump; Fashion and the FA Cup
Feb 24, 2025
17th February 2025: Remembering The 21; Grenfell and Rom Coms of the past
Feb 17, 2025
10th February 2025: Love - friendship; Vance vs Stewart & contestants on The Chase
Feb 10, 2025
3rd February 2025: beer; work/life balance; thanking the Universe and the power of the little red cross
Feb 03, 2025
27th January 2025: The Traitors, Apple AI and the Inauguration....
Jan 27, 2025
20th January 2025: Lady Mary's OT gangsters; Russian Reformation & colours of grey
Jan 20, 2025
13th January 2025: Mysticism, Elon Musk and Wallace & Gromit
Jan 13, 2025
30th December 2024: exploring the "happy" in Happy New Year
Dec 30, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 25: God owes us nothing on Christmas Day
Dec 25, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 24: Challenging OCD on Christmas Eve
Dec 24, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 23: The Advent poets who can’t wait till the world is sane
Dec 23, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 22: If you think Christmas is right, you've got it wrong
Dec 22, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 21: The Innkeeper's Wife
Dec 21, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 20: The Earth-shaking consequences of Christmas
Dec 20, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 19: How to push past the stress of the season to rediscover the magic
Dec 19, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 18: S&UA and the sound of belonging
Dec 18, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 17: Spending time with family at Christmas
Dec 17, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 16: How to have a philosophically Happy Christmas
Dec 16, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 15: Navigating reality at Christmas
Dec 15, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 14: It's a Wonderful Life
Dec 14, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 13: Decoding the hidden messages in Christmas carols
Dec 13, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 12: TV's search for the perfect sitcom Christmas Special
Dec 12, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 11: Beauty’s extraordinary masterpiece
Dec 11, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 10: Sharing food is antidote to despair
Dec 10, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 9: Considering who wears the crown at Christmas
Dec 09, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 8: In the Bleak Midwinter
Dec 08, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 7: 5 Christmas Movies to curl up with
Dec 07, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 6: the origin story of Father Christmas
Dec 06, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 5: Christmas cards - art ancient and modern
Dec 05, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 4: Binge Watching
Dec 04, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 3: Is your Nativity missing a dragon?
Dec 03, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 2: In Defence of the Traditional Nativity Play
Dec 02, 2024
Christmas Countdown Day 1: Advent Calendars
Dec 01, 2024
25th November 2024: awe-inspiring snow, the grudge of a crow and Dear Sally Rooney
Nov 25, 2024
18th November 2024: Trump, Wolf Hall, Paddington and Small Things Like These
Nov 18, 2024
11th November 2024: Honest Remembrance; the Miracle of Democracy and the Contempt of the Apprentice
Nov 11, 2024
4th November 2024: Seeing Donald Trump; being seen in Beijing and Miranda's diagnosis of the Unseen
Nov 04, 2024
28th October 2024: Vampires; Auden and Ludwig
Oct 28, 2024
21st October 2024: Harvest, the Nicene Creed and Conscientious Objections to Assisted Dying
Oct 21, 2024
14th October 2024: Joy, Kaos and Assisted Dying
Oct 10, 2024
7th October 2024: Cosy time, the power of beauty and loving your neighbour in the Middle East
Oct 07, 2024
30th September 2024: Tree of knowledge - Google, Ukraine & St Michael's dragons
Oct 03, 2024
S&UA short: Watching Grenfell - the lost art of penitence by Graham Tomlin
Sep 25, 2024
23rd September 2024: Stories vs Facts in US election; is sorry the hardest word? and a Tolkien poem speaking into dementia
Sep 23, 2024
16th September 2024: Labour PMs & Britpop; the poignancy of aging parents and the surprising wisdom of Deadpool & Wolverine
Sep 16, 2024
9th September 2024: Inside Out, Wild God and Grenfell's Tale of Two Towers
Sep 09, 2024
2nd September 2024: how to find meaning - in Olympic gold; music and the big questions of life
Sep 01, 2024
26th August 2024: paganism, secularism and faith found in publishing and in the Olympics
Aug 26, 2024
12th August 2024: Summer Box Set Special: Summer Holidays
Aug 12, 2024
29th July 2024: Summer Box Set special: Emerson Csorba on politics, purpose and people encounters
Jul 29, 2024
15th July 2024: Myth maketh meaning; the Disneyfication of the monasteries and mistake make us human
Jul 15, 2024
1st July 2024: the Election, the Euros, the possibility of revival and betting on eternity
Jul 01, 2024
24th June 2024: the companionship of reading, the benefit of enemies and the power of mercy
Jun 24, 2024
17th June 2024: How we decide what is true rests on where we start from: God, football and politics
Jun 17, 2024
10th June 2024: Undemocratic dairy; SciFi theology and Tears of Gold
Jun 10, 2024
3rd June 2024: Bridgerton, "messianic" politicians & AI's liberation of humanity
Jun 03, 2024
27th May 2024: Humility and leadership - a weird but essential combo
May 27, 2024
20th May 2024: Life is messy, making a home in Blackpool and the art of pilgrimage
May 20, 2024
13th May 2024: Simon Reeve's zeal; reform votes at the Garrick Club and weaponised words in the world of knife crime
May 13, 2024
6th May 2024: Angels, anxiety and what Taylor Swift has in common with Mr Bennet
May 06, 2024
29th April 2024: Marriage as martyrdom; Bullies in the Political playground and VAR stealing the joy
Apr 29, 2024
22nd April 2024: Scottie Scheffler; the power of love; and Graham Tomlin's take on the rest is Luther
Apr 18, 2024
15th April 2024: Scorsese, Beyoncé and the importance of not trying to cope alone
Apr 15, 2024
8th April 2024: Jane Austin's fashionable goodness, re-enchanting glum councillors and Theresa Lola's hopeful poetry
Apr 08, 2024
1st April 2024: the serious art of playing; lament as we remember Sarah Everard; and our addiction to distraction
Apr 01, 2024
25th March 2024: big thoughts for Easter Week
Mar 25, 2024
Seen & Unseen Aloud Special Episode: Graham Tomlin interviews Miroslav Volf
Mar 20, 2024
18th March 2024: Birthday Celebration Episode
Mar 18, 2024
11th March 2024: Loneliness, the emotion of politics and misreading the moment at weddings
Mar 11, 2024
4th March 2024: Time travel on a train; the gospel according to ITV's docu-dramas and Navalny's thirst for justice
Mar 04, 2024
26th February 2024: doubt and the spiritual practices of Lent explained
Feb 26, 2024
19th February 2024: ADHD facts beyond the fad; identifying as human and Medieval wisdom on intermittent fasting
Feb 19, 2024
12th February 2024: Church & State, Northern Ireland and a whole lot of FOMO...
Feb 12, 2024
5th February 2024: Jesus walks on the red carpet, the damage of mental ill health and life lessons from Jurgen Klopp
Feb 05, 2024
29th January 2024: Ancient cave paintings, Veganuary and an Egyptian mega church in Garbage City
Jan 29, 2024
22nd January 2024: the Post Office, Politics and Medicine
Jan 22, 2024
15th January 2024: assisted dying, One Life saves 100s and the flawed power of self-belief
Jan 15, 2024
8th January 2024: New Year compilation: the Writer's cut
Jan 08, 2024
1st January 2024: New Year Compilation: the Director's cut
Jan 01, 2024
25th December 2023: Christmas Compilation - Senior Editor's top picks
Dec 25, 2023
18th December 2023: Christmas Compilation - Narrator's top picks
Dec 18, 2023
11th December 2023: de-coding carols; tears in the bleak midwinter and the earth-shaking consequences of Christmas
Dec 11, 2023
4th December 2023: how we find ourselves in algorithms, barbers' chairs and TTRPGs
Dec 04, 2023
27th November 2023: a Faith museum; the Screwtape Letters and dinner in Amman
Nov 27, 2023
20th November 2023: Attention, the Beatles and Chandler Bing
Nov 20, 2023
13th November 2023: the preciousness of an ordinary day; visiting the memorials of American history and human dignity and worth
Nov 13, 2023
6th November 2023: the art of dying, the end of killing and the search for Martin Luther King
Nov 06, 2023
30th October 2023: Fear of Dad-hood, following our noses and exploring the space of death
Oct 30, 2023
23rd October 2023: from the horror of the Israel-Hamas war, via the Disney phenomenon to the modern loves story of Travis and Taylor
Oct 23, 2023
16th October 2023: Crazy Christians in movies, a felled tree and a Catholic comedian
Oct 16, 2023
9th October 2023: "what if"s in politics; the power of faith & foodbanks and the reality of Disney's Prince Charming
Oct 09, 2023
2nd October 2023: from a blank page to the pub, what are we waiting for?
Oct 02, 2023
25th September 2023: the human condition - the problem with men; the power of shame and imagining the fragility of our hearts
Sep 25, 2023
The Seven Deadly Sins Vol 3
Sep 18, 2023
18th September 2023: Taylor Swift, Beethoven and the meaning of meals
Sep 18, 2023
11th September 2023: Back to school and the need to keep learning
Sep 11, 2023
4th September 2023: Justice and the difference between sloth and seeing slowly
Sep 04, 2023
The Seven Deadly Sins Vol 2
Aug 28, 2023
28th August 2023: Edinburgh Fringe, loneliness and Dear Greta (how Netflix's Narnia can be a roaring success)
Aug 28, 2023
21st August 2023: confessions of an atheist; the reassurance of football and the power of pride
Aug 21, 2023
The Seven Deadly Sins Vol 1
Aug 14, 2023
14th August 2023: Summer Travels: to the Andes, Bordeaux and the world of re-enchantment
Aug 14, 2023
7th August 2023: a clash of worlds: Barbie and begging
Aug 07, 2023
31st July: Summer Special Part 3
Jul 31, 2023
24th July 2023: Summer Special Part 2
Jul 24, 2023
17th July 2023: Summer Special part 1
Jul 17, 2023
10th July 2023: Bach, bed-rotting and Beijing
Jul 10, 2023
3rd July 2023: loneliness; "Local Hero" and listening to the stories of refugees
Jul 03, 2023
26th June 2023: Brazilian slums, Scottish politics, (de)personalisation of medicine and the life of vows
Jun 26, 2023
19th June 2023: Sorry seems to be the hardest word; chasing the rain and life lessons from a pup
Jun 19, 2023
12th June 2023: neurodiversity in Pentonville Prison; nuns hold up a bank; finding Eden in the East End & cycling from darkness to light
Jun 12, 2023
5th June 2023: Creating out of nothing; wrestling with the God desire and when Christenings happened in secret
Jun 05, 2023
29th May 2023: Guardians of the Galaxy; the interruption of trauma; new ways of doing international aid & how Indian cinema represents Christians
May 29, 2023
22nd May 2023: reflections on Grenfell and the power of penitence, what's annoying about dying and the hidden benefits of meditation
May 22, 2023
15th May 2023: Church & State; Science & Religion; Guys & Dolls
May 15, 2023
8th May 2023: activism, authenticity, astronomy, transhumanism and a campfire encounter
May 08, 2023
Box Set Special: A Coronation Cornucopia by Ian Bradley
May 04, 2023
1 May 2023 "Air", the Coronation and a bit of theological paranoia
May 01, 2023
24 April 2023 - thoughts on dumping emotional rubbish, the power of addiction and reviving post-Liberal society
Apr 24, 2023
24 April 2023 Justice, mercy and a familial fanfare for the Coronation
Apr 24, 2023
9 April - thoughts on Easter: faith, chaos and carnage.
Apr 09, 2023
3 April - The war in Ukraine, spiritual consciousness and Jacob Collier
Apr 03, 2023
27 March - On "home", risky generosity, and dating shows.
Mar 27, 2023
20 March - Discovering the Seen & Unseen
Mar 16, 2023