Jun 23, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 12 segments
Kelsi talks with author and theologian, Belle Tindall-Riley, about her new book, *The Sacred Ache*, and Gen Z's search for the spiritual. Belle holds a Doctorate in Biblical Studies and her debut…
Belle Tindall-RileyGuest
Kelsi KlembaraHost
Well, I think that there's also I would be curious if you could kind of give listeners a little bit of the landscape of the UK for those who might not be familiar, because it is.
I think it's becoming maybe a little bit less easier in the U.S. to be a Christian.
Is that part of it? You also in the book refer to Christianity as weird, which I appreciate.
mindset to have is that this is very different than the air that many people breathe these days.
So give us a little bit of what is kind of your context? What was your context growing up? And now as you are in ministry and in theology, what are you seeing around you for people?
So when I was growing up, and just to, I can kind of like locate myself in context.
um yeah yeah we're fine with that um so I I truly would have said like if someone so in the UK we obviously had this huge new atheist movement your your Richard Dawkins your Sam Harris who I who I know actually we don't own in the UK um who Christopher Hitchens um people like that Daniel Dennett um we had this huge movement.
And when people would talk to me about like this new atheism age, I would honestly kind of be quite dismissive of it and sort of say, oh, I was, I was watching cartoons when that was kicking off.
Well, I think that there's also I would be curious if you could kind of give listeners a little bit of the landscape of the UK for those who might not be familiar, because it is.
I think it's becoming maybe a little bit less easier in the U.S. to be a Christian.
Is that part of it? You also in the book refer to Christianity as weird, which I appreciate.
mindset to have is that this is very different than the air that many people breathe these days.
So give us a little bit of what is kind of your context? What was your context growing up? And now as you are in ministry and in theology, what are you seeing around you for people?
So when I was growing up, and just to, I can kind of like locate myself in context.
um yeah yeah we're fine with that um so I I truly would have said like if someone so in the UK we obviously had this huge new atheist movement your your Richard Dawkins your Sam Harris who I who I know actually we don't own in the UK um who Christopher Hitchens um people like that Daniel Dennett um we had this huge movement.
And when people would talk to me about like this new atheism age, I would honestly kind of be quite dismissive of it and sort of say, oh, I was, I was watching cartoons when that was kicking off.
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