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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Jonathan Pageau on icons, political dehumanisation, and befriending Jordan Peterson
Jonathan Pageau is a French Canadian icon carver, public speaker and YouTuber exploring the symbolic patterns that underlie our experience of the world.
He spoke about his journey to cre...
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Rowan Deacon on the power of storytelling and the ethics of making a documentary
Rowan Deacon is a documentary filmmaker. Her portfolio includes the multi award winning film How to Die: Simon's Choice, and most recently Jimmy Savile: A Very British Horror Story, which was i...
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Danté Stewart on family, church and race in America
Danté Stewart is a church leader and writer whose journalism has appeared in a variety of top newspapers across the America. His most recent book is Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle.
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Sarah Langford on the importance of meaningful work, and how not to change someone's mind
Sarah Langford is a criminal and family barrister gone farmer, and the author of the best-selling book ‘In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law’. Her most recent book, 'Rooted: Stories of ...
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Zara Mohammed on her muslim faith and the challenges of being a young woman leader
Zara Mohammed is Secretary General for the Muslim Council of Britain. When elected, she was the youngest and first woman to lead the organisation.
She spoke about her childhood, her musl...
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Sathnam Sanghera on his Sikh faith, colonialism, and dealing with online abuse
Sathnam Sanghera is journalist for The Times, and best-selling memoirist. His most recent book, Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain, has been showered with awards and endorseme...
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Paul Kingsnorth on environmentalism, converting to Christianity and his concerns about authoritarianism
Paul is an award winning novelist and essaying, currently best known for his Substack - The Abbey of Misrule.
He spoke about his deep environmental commitments, his conversion to the Ort...
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Sacred Reflection: Queen Elizabeth II and her role in reconciliation
The United Kingdom, Commonwealth and indeed the entire world were sent into shock after Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II died on Thursday 8 September at the age 96, and after 70 years on the thron...
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Jenny Odell on attention, where we put it, and how it can polarise society
Jenny Odell is an American multi-disciplinary artist, former art teacher at Stanford University and author of the New York Times best selling book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Eco...
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Kate Maltby on her Jewish heritage, identity issues and the power of live theatre
Kate Maltby is a columnist for The i Paper, theatre critic and senior research associate at Jesus College Cambridge.
She spoke about her Jewish heritage, the power and (almost) sacrednes...