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“I call myself a Christian because I think that my values are Christian” Historian Tom Holland joined UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers and rock icon Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to discuss what makes him a Christian, and why being ‘culturally Christian’ is indistinguishable from just being Christian.

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