This talk was given at the Church Times Festival of Faith and Literature on Friday 28 February 2025.

Elizabeth is a journalist, public intellectual, and the host of the podcast The Sacred, which explores the deep values of a range of guests. Until recently, she was director of the think tank Theos.

In Fully Alive: Tending to the soul in turbulent times, she explores what it means to live life to the full, drawing on theology, philosophy, sociology, economics, science, literature, and psychotherapy, and on her own life as a millennial feminist with a husband and two children, living with another family in an intentional community.

An extract from the book was published in the 24 May edition of the Church Times.

Fully Alive is published by Hodder & Stoughton at £18.99 (Church Times Bookshop £15.19); 978-1-3998-1076-0.

www.elizabetholdfield.com