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The Sacred

Theos Think Tank

Société & Culture

Fréquence : 1 épisode/13j. Total Éps: 250

A podcast about our Sacred values and how we can talk to people who are different from ourselves. Each episode features a conversation with someone who has a public voice, from academics to journalists, playwrights and politicians. We ask them where they have come from, what they are trying to do and what might help heal our very divided public conversations. The Sacred is hosted by Elizabeth Oldfield and produced in partnership with Comment Magazine, and with support from The Jerusalem Trust and Open Society Foundation

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Art, Friendship and Trust Across the Israeli-Palestinian Divide | FeelBeit Founders

mercredi 7 octobre 2026 • Durée 50:50

What Does It Take to Create a Shared Home in a Divided City?

In Jerusalem, two women from opposite sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide, Riman Barakat and Karen Brunwasser, have spent more than a decade building FeelBeit, a shared arts and cultural space where Israeli and Palestinian artists and communities are invited to ‘feel at home’ together.

In this moving conversation, recorded live at Aspen Ideas Festival, we explore what it takes to build trust across a profound divide—and what happens when that trust is tested by violence, grief and fear.

We also cover:

Friendship and why relationships can be a form of peacebuilding
What happened at FeelBeit after October 7 and in the years since
The power of art to hold grief, anger, joy and hope at the same time
Why “compassion over righteous indignation” and “self-love and self-critique” might be some of the hardest—and most necessary—practices for our societies

🎙️ Listen to The Sacred: linktr.ee/sacredpodcast

📖 Follow Elizabeth Oldfield: www.elizabetholdfield.com/

💡 The Sacred is produced by Theos Think Tank in partnership with Comment Magazine, and with support from The Jerusalem Trust and Open Society Foundations

👉 Check out FeelBeit: https://feelbeit.com/underconstruction/

Our guests and listeners to our podcast come from all kinds of perspectives and what draws us together is a desire to be self-aware about our own values and curious about other peoples. Comment your reflections below, we read them all 👇

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Can Bourgeois Values Save Britain? James Vitali on Ownership and Obligation

mercredi 23 septembre 2026 • Durée 57:51

Can you really vote your way to a good society - or does it have to be built house by house, street by street?

Dr James Vitali - Head of Political Economy at Policy Exchange, a Sandhurst-trained army reservist, local councillor, and author of The Ownership Society: How Bourgeois Values Can Save Britain - talks about the Dorset church at the heart of his childhood, what military service taught him about sacrifice and leadership, and why he believes Britain's real crisis is moral, not economic.

In this conversation we also explored:

• Growing up between Navy deployments, and the community that stepped in

• "Servant leadership" and why politics keeps failing to practise it

• Home ownership, responsibility, and not being able to buy

• Thatcher, Tocqueville, and where conservatism lost the plot

• The human cost of localism - and what to do with the suffering in between

🎙️ Listen to The Sacred: linktr.ee/sacredpodcast

📖 Follow Elizabeth Oldfield: www.elizabetholdfield.com/

💡 The Sacred is produced by Theos Think Tank in partnership with Comment Magazine, and with support from The Jerusalem Trust and Open Society Foundations

👉 Read James' book, The Ownership Society: How Bourgeois Values Can Save Britain https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-ownership-society-how-bourgeois-values-can-save-britain--9781509569526

👇 Our guests and listeners to our podcast come from all kinds of perspectives and what draws us together is a desire to be self-aware about our own values and curious about other peoples. Comment your reflections below, we read them all.

Chapters:

00:00 – Intro: meeting James Vitali

01:56 – What is sacred to you?

04:13 – A rooted military childhood in Dorset

Preparing to Die, Then Learning to Live Again with Poet Christian Wiman

mercredi 9 septembre 2026 • Durée 01:11:31

What does it mean to prepare to die—and then discover that you need to prepare to live again?

In this conversation, poet Christian Wiman reflects on faith, poetry, love, mortality, and his experience of living for more than 20 years with cancer.

He talks about his turbulent childhood, how poetry transformed his anger into something creative, and why he believes poems can open us to something beyond ourselves.

The conversation also explores:

Wiman’s journey from economics to poetry
What a poem actually is—and why sound can matter more than meaning
Attention and his idea of “productive inattention”
Faith, suffering, and writers including Simone Weil and Etty Hillesum

Wiman also reads three poems: Five Houses Down, 2047 Grace Street, and In the Time of Fire.

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🎙️ Listen to The Sacred: linktr.ee/sacredpodcast

📖 Follow Elizabeth Oldfield: www.elizabetholdfield.com/

💡 The Sacred is produced by Theos Think Tank in partnership with Comment Magazine, and with support from The Jerusalem Trust and Open Society Foundations

👉 See Christian Wiman's Poetry: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/christian-wiman --

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Why We Need to Be in Our Bodies Together

mercredi 19 août 2026 • Durée 07:05

What are we losing by spending so much of our lives behind screens?

COVID-19 brought the whole world online, and as a podcast we kind of stayed there. This season, we made a commitment to only recording in person, mostly at Elizabeth’s community house in south London.

As a result, we sensed a big shift in our connection with guests and we thought we’d take an opportunity to reflect on a few things that we’d forgotten along the way:

Being in-person is key to meeting people as real humans and creating non-transactional relationships

Something shifts when we eat snacks together and see each other’s homes

Screens and the ease of our digital lives mean we spend less time in our bodies. It’s much more convenient — but what’s the hidden cost?

We shrink when were alone, and we trust others less

We feel challenged to spend more time with people in our bodies — looking each other in the eye, sharing physical space, and being present.

We’d love to hear whether you’ve sensed a difference in our latest in-person episodes and your thoughts on being together in person.

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🎙️Listen to The Sacred Podcast: https://linktr.ee/sacredpodcast

📖 Follow Elizabeth Oldfield: https://www.elizabetholdfield.com/

💡Produced by Theos Think Tank in partnership with Comment Magazine and with support from The Jerusalem Trust and Open Society Foundations

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How to Belong When You’ve Always Been An Outsider with Rabbi Angela Buchdahl

mercredi 5 août 2026 • Durée 01:12:13

What do you do when you feel like an outsider?

We spoke to Rabbi Angela Buchdahl who turned her experience of being a cultural and religious outsider into a source of strength.

Raised in a biracial, mixed-faith American-Korean family, her identity was both welcomed and questioned in Korean and Jewish communities.

She later would later go on to become one of the most prominent and influential public rabbis in the United States, the first female East Asian senior rabbi at NYC's Central Synagogue, and writer of the bestselling memoir Heart of a Stranger.

We spoke about:

Owning multiple identities, not fitting in and how to create a steady sense of self
The religious conversion instinct and how to have religious humility
Key Hebrew ideas that Rabbi Angela lives by
The radical offering of religious communities in our divided times: community, awe, proximity
Navigating tokenism as the first East Asian ordained rabbi

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🎙️Listen to ⁠The Sacred Podcast⁠: https://linktr.ee/sacredpodcast

📖 Follow ⁠Elizabeth Oldfield: https://www.elizabetholdfield.com/

💡Produced by ⁠⁠Theos Think Tank⁠⁠ in partnership with ⁠⁠Comment Magazine⁠⁠ and with support from ⁠⁠The Jerusalem Trust⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Open Society Foundations

👉 Follow Rabbi Angela Buchdahl: https://www.instagram.com/rabbibuchdahl/?hl=en

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Why Are Our AI Conversations So Divided?

mercredi 29 juillet 2026 • Durée 03:32

We talk a lot about the harms and benefits of AI, but we don’t talk enough about what the conversations about AI might actually be doing to us.

Perhaps the biggest challenge in the mix may not be the technology itself, but how it changes the way we think, communicate, and relate to each other as humans.

We’re creating some space for a different kind of conversation about AI with Jamie Bartlett on 8th September in London. We’d love to see you there!

🔗 Grab a ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-sacred-live-ai-and-the-future-of-being-human-tickets-1994014009580 - use code: SACRED-EARLY-BIRD for a £12 ticket! Promo ends 8.08.26

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The Ancient Wisdom in Fairy Tales | Dr Sharon Blackie

mercredi 22 juillet 2026 • Durée 01:04:36

Why do stories matter? Why have human beings always told stories - and what if the oldest stories still have something vital to teach us?

In this episode of The Sacred, Elizabeth Oldfield sits down with psychologist, mythologist and bestselling author Dr Sharon Blackie to explore why myths and fairy tales aren't just relics of the past, but tools for making sense of life today.

From a childhood marked by hardship to decades studying narrative psychology, Sharon shares how stories help us navigate change and uncertainty by showing us how people find courage, resilience and meaning in the face of life's hardest moments.

⚠️ Content note: This episode includes discussion of rape, sexual violence and domestic abuse. Listen with care.

Together they explore:

Why stories shape the way we understand ourselves
What fairy tales can teach us about resilience and healing
Why men need less heroic storylines
The forgotten wisdom hidden in traditional myths
Women's stories, identity and reclaiming lost voices
Our relationship with nature and what ancient stories reveal about living well today

Whether you love folklore or have never picked up a fairy tale since childhood, this conversation is ultimately about how to make sense of suffering, rediscover hope, or find meaning in uncertain times.

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Dr Sharon Blackie is an award-winning psychologist, mythologist and author of If Women Rose Rooted, Hagitude, Wise Women and The Enchanted Life. Her work explores mythology, psychology, ecology and the stories that shape who we become.

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The Economics of the Life We Want with Sam Bowman

mercredi 8 juillet 2026 • Durée 01:08:49

Whether we know it or not, economics shapes almost every part of our lives - where we live, whether we can afford children, how much time we have with the people we love, and even the choices we think are available to us. But most of us rarely stop to ask what economics is actually for.

In this episode, Elizabeth Oldfield sits down with economist and Works in Progress editor Sam Bowman for a conversation that goes far beyond markets, GDP and public policy. Together we explore freedom, human flourishing, progress, and the surprising moral questions that sit beneath economic thinking.

We spoke about:

Why economics is really about people, not money

The relationship between freedom, wealth and human flourishing

Whether we really need wealth to be happy

Does the pursuit of prosperity comes at the expense of the things that make life meaningful?

Whether economics fascinates you or completely intimidates you, this conversation offers a fresh take on one of the most significant forces shaping modern life.

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Our guests and listeners to our podcast come from all kinds of perspectives and what draws us together is a desire to be self-aware about our own values and curious about other peoples.

Comment your reflections below, we read them all👇

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🎙️Listen to ⁠The Sacred Podcast⁠: https://linktr.ee/sacredpodcast

📖 Follow ⁠Elizabeth Oldfield: https://www.elizabetholdfield.com/

💡Produced by ⁠⁠Theos Think Tank⁠⁠ in partnership with ⁠⁠Comment Magazine⁠⁠ and with support from ⁠⁠The Jerusalem Trust⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Open Society Foundations

👉 Follow Sam Bowman: https://x.com/s8mb

"I'm Painfully British": What it Means to be British and Muslim Right Now | Mehreen Khan

mercredi 24 juin 2026 • Durée 01:09:10

What does it mean to be visibly Muslim in British public life right now?

Mehreen Khan has been living that question since she was eleven years old - when 9/11 turned her faith into something she had to defend.

She's now Economics Editor at The Times, the first woman and first person of colour in the role, and one of the most outspoken Muslim voices in mainstream British journalism.

We cover:

What Islam really means to her — the concept of fitrah and why faith makes you a better journalist

How 9/11 turned Islam into a punk identity for Mehreen and ego death

Being the first woman and first person of colour as Economics Editor at The Times Davos, elite financial circles, and what you see when you're inside the room

Money: why economics is never morally neutral, and what it might look like to bring moral imagination back to capitalism
What it means to be visibly Muslim in Britain right now
Why Mehreen is quietly rooting for the revival of Christianity in British public life

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🎙️Listen to ⁠The Sacred Podcast⁠: https://linktr.ee/sacredpodcast

📖 Follow ⁠Elizabeth Oldfield: https://www.elizabetholdfield.com/

💡Produced by ⁠⁠Theos Think Tank⁠⁠ in partnership with ⁠⁠Comment Magazine⁠⁠ and with support from ⁠⁠The Jerusalem Trust⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Open Society Foundations

👉 See Mehreen's work: https://www.thetimes.com/profile/mehreen-khan

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Boarding School Britain and The Things We Normalise | Hugo Rifkind

mercredi 10 juin 2026 • Durée 01:09:24

Hugo Rifkind has spent his career observing power. He also grew up inside it — and never quite felt he belonged there.

In this episode, he talks about:

The Scottish boarding school where violence was a point of pride... until a public inquiry forced the question
About being Jewish in public life since October 7th, and what it felt like when the people his community relied on weren't there
The thing he values most — connection — and his honest admission that what he often really means is something more one-sided than that

🎙️Listen to ⁠The Sacred Podcast⁠: https://linktr.ee/sacredpodcast

📖 Follow ⁠Elizabeth Oldfield: https://www.elizabetholdfield.com/

💡Produced by ⁠⁠Theos Think Tank⁠⁠ in partnership with ⁠⁠Comment Magazine⁠⁠ and with support from ⁠⁠The Jerusalem Trust⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Open Society Foundations

👉 Follow Hugo Rifkind: https://www.instagram.com/p/DXmPHlqo1Jf/?hl=en-gb

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