Description
In a world marked by uncertainty and division, what does it mean to believe – in faith, in ourselves, in one another?
Join Belle Tindall, host of the Seen and Unseen podcast, for a live recording with Lamorna Ash, Chine McDonald, and Francis Spufford. From surviving personal crisis to questioning cultural myths and navigating religious tradition, these acclaimed writers explore how belief shapes our identities, communities, and hopes for the future.
This thought-provoking conversation moves between the personal and political, asking: in fractured times, how do we make sense of belief, and where might it lead us next?
About the Authors
Lamorna Ash
Lamorna Ash is a writer based in London. Her first book, Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, was shortlisted for the Wainwright Nature Writing Prize in 2020, and won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2021. The book was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. As a journalist, she writes for the Guardian, Vogue, Financial Times, Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman and the Telegraph.
Chine McDonald
Chine McDonald is Director of Theos, the religion and society think tank. She speaks and writes regularly on issues of race, faith and gender, and is the author of ‘God is not a white man: and other revelations’ (Hodder & Stoughton, May 2021) which was runner-up for the Michael Ramsey Prize for theological writing, and Unmaking Mary: Shattering the Myth of Perfect Motherhood (Hodder & Stoughton, March 2025).
Chine is a regular writer, broadcaster, panel host and media commentator and has written for the Financial Times, the Guardian, The Independent, The Big Issue, Prospect, The Mirror and contributes to TV and radio programmes such as regularly presenting the BBC’s Thought for the Day on Radio 4’s Today programme. Chine is vice–chair of Greenbelt Festival and a trustee of Christian Aid. Chine studied Theology and Religious Studies at Cambridge University, and is a Canon Theologian at Chester Cathedral.
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