Graham Usher explores why so many of us encounter the presence of God in landscapes, and also key moments in the Bible where people encounter God in the natural world. In particular, he talks about what mountains mean to him and what they signify in the Bible: places where heaven and earth meet. 

Bishop Graham Usher reflects on how we can listen to the Voice of Creation in a time of climate change.

Anthony Reddie introduces the life and work of James H. Cone, one of the greatest theologians of the 20th century, and explores his no-holds-barred liberationist Christian theology.

The Rev Prof June Boyce-Tillman tells the story and explores the music and theology of the 12th century mystic Hildegard of Bingen. She talks about her innovative thinking about the natural world, medicine and music, and her importance as a female theologian and visionary.

Andrew Nunn reflects on the journey to Bethlehem this season of Advent.

Lucy Winkett and Paula Gooder explore the pleasures, difficulties, and meanings of Christmas in good times and in bad.

Canon Chancellor, Dr Paula Gooder, reflects on dying well as we mourn the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Etty Hillesum was a young Jewish woman living in occupied Amsterdam in the 1940s who chronicled both what was happening around her, and her own deepening spiritual life and refusal to hate or to hide.  Patrick Woodhouse introduces her story, her thinking, what we might learn from it today, and reads from her writings. 

Biblical scholar Paula Gooder says that stories and storytelling make all the difference to our understanding of the New Testament. In this conversation with Bishop Helen-Ann Hartley she talks about her new book Lydia, her second narrative exploration of a woman in the early church, which opens up life as a Christian in first-century Philippi and Paul’s letter to the new church there.