The New Statesman Podcast: Episode Seven

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🗓️ 31 May 2013

⏱️ 21 minutes

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On this week's half-term edition of the New Statesman podcast Sophie Elmhirst talks to George Pitcher about the new Power Christians at work in the City of London, we discuss Robert Macfarlane's "Holloway" and the problems with the "new" nature writing and Alex Hern explains the saga of Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell's Zenith.

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1:04.9	Caroline Crampton standing in again for your usual host Helen Lewis as she's
1:08.5	still on holiday. Every week the New Statesman team bring you an exciting
1:11.9	mixture of discussions, interviews and stories. We're here in the formerly the Secretary of Public Affairs at Lambeth Palace
1:25.4	and who currently in Anglican Priest and writer
1:27.6	and George has written the cover story for the New States
1:30.1	in this week.
1:31.6	In which, George, you've coined the concept of the new power Christians.
1:36.2	Who are they? Well, Sophie, I think you called them the power Christians, actually. But I agree with you I think there's a new generation of
1:47.1	Christian witness coming through in places like the city of London in commerce
1:51.7	more generally but in the financial markets
1:55.8	during the boom years up to 2008 it was really about surviving as a Christian in the city.
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