MVP Fridays: “Tending the Soul in Turbulent Times” with Elizabeth Oldfield

Friday, Oct 10, 2025
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Geddes Hall, Andrews Auditorium

Join the Institute for Social Concerns on Friday afternoons on select home football weekends for MVP Fridays: lectures by national leaders, journalists, and writers on questions of meaning, values, and purpose. Reception and book signing to follow!

For the weekend of the NC State game, we welcome Elizabeth Oldfield, author of Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times and host of The Sacred podcast, interviewing those who shape our common life about their deepest values.

Introduction by Paul Blaschko, Director, Sheedy Family Program in Economy, Enterprise, and Society; assistant teaching professor of philosophy.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Theology and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies.

Elizabeth Oldfield is a writer, public speaker and coach, fascinated by how we build lives and organisations which reflect the values of connection, clarity, and courage. She is the author of Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times, exploring how we can build spiritual core strength for an unstable age. Since 2017 she has hosted The Sacred, a podcast, events, and visual content brand which creates space for a wide range of guests to reflect on their deepest values. For ten years she was director of Theos, the UK’s leading religion and society think tank. Her writing has appeared in Prospect Magazine, The Times, UnHerd and The Financial Times.