Richard Harries is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. After nineteen years as Bishop of Oxford he was made a Life Peer (Lord Harries of Pentregarth) and he remains active in the House of Lords on human rights issues. He is Emeritus Gresham Professor of Divinity and a Visiting Professor of Theology at King's College, London, where he was formerly Dean. His voice is well known to many through his regular contributions to the Today programme.

Among his many critically acclaimed books are Seeing God in Art (2020), Haunted by Christ (2018), The Beauty and the Horror (2016), The Re-enchantment of Morality (2008), shortlisted for the Michael Ramsey Prize, and Art and the Beauty of God (1993), selected as book of the year by Anthony Burgess in The Observer.