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.

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.