The Sacred
A podcast about the things we hold sacred, and how to talk to people different from ourselves.
Episode Archive
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Vanessa Zoltan on radical hospitality, atheist chaplaincy and treating texts as sacred
Vanessa worked in education and nonprofits before attending Harvard Divinity School to become a non–denominational atheist chaplain. Whilst at Harvard she and Casper Ter Kuile who was also a gue...
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Rupert Read on nonviolence, the climate crisis and the power of emotions
Rupert is an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He is author of over a dozen books on philosophy and the climate crisis, and he was previously a spokesperson for...
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Minna Salami on feminism, racism and ‘sensuous knowledge’
Minna is a social critic, feminist theorist and poet, and she’s founder of the blog, MsAfropolitan. She’s the author most recently of ‘Sensuous knowledge: a black feminist approach for everyone’...
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Stuart Ritchie on scepticism, and the role and reliability of science
Stuart is a lecturer at the Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London. He's been a researcher in human cognitive abilities, and his most recent book is 'Scien...
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Eli Pariser on curiosity, the value of democracy and why we need shared public digital spaces
Eli Pariser has had a long and distinguished career in tech entrepreneurship and is currently running the organisation New Public, which is trying to help thinkers, designers and technologists b...
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Louise Perry on motherhood, consent and the case against the sexual revolution
Louise is a writer and campaigner. She has a weekly column in the New Statesman and is press officer for the campaign group 'We can’t consent to this', which documents cases in which UK women ha...
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David Brooks on his conversion, vulnerability and the challenges of talking about morality
David is an op ed columnist for the New York Times, a radio and television host, author of multiple bestselling books, and Chair of Weave the social fabric project at the Aspen Institute, among ...
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Ryan North on kindness, comics and the appeal of superheroes
Ryan North is a writer for television, video games, and especially comic books. Some of his most recent projects include 'How To Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Travell...
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Sarah Eberle on what gardening teaches us and why nature is good for the soul
In the final episode of this series, Elizabeth speaks to Sarah Eberle, the most-decorated RHS garden designer. She has made RHS Chelsea Flower Show history by winning a Gold Medal in every categ...
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Jillian Richardson on the normality of loneliness and finding belonging outside religion
Jillian is a loneliness expert, facilitator and events host. She is the author of ‘Un-Lonely Planet’.
She speaks about the drivenness of her East Coast American childhood, how she balan...