Nick Spencer

When MP Chris Coghlan was denied the eucharist after voting for the assisted dying bill, opinions were split: who acted rightly? And how far should our faith affect our public actions? Read @theosnick of @theosthinktank's #ConnectingWithCulture: bit.ly/4kphDWa

I am consistently impressed with the quality of ⁦@PrincetonUPress⁩ books and this one, out here in Sept, looks especially good - and highly relevant !

If you're interested in the Future of the West, check out this series of Reading our Times which has explored its "contours"- choice, growth, democracy, sex, Christianity &c with @purisamir1 @LucyAAsh @a_n_a_berg Jonathan Sumption, Diarmaid Macculloch etc tinyurl.com/5677vdbf

What can we learn from the Scopes 'Monkey' trial 100 years on? 🎧Catch @theosnick discussing the trial for @BBCR4Sunday from 24:31. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

"These are, in short, 'interesting times' for both democracy and Christianity." @theosnick reviews Christianity and Democracy Today: International perspectives ⬇️ churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

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"We're already well aware of the risks and challenges that we face in our own kind of own persons. Having a child means opening yourself up to that vulnerability in the life of another person." What are children for? @a_n_a_berg @rachelcwiseman tinyurl.com/37n7wrj7

🐒 100 years since the Scopes "Monkey" trial, is it as simple as evolution vs creationism? @theosnick explores the impact of this era-defining trial one century on and the cultural legacy it still has today. Read our latest blog 👇 theosthinktank.co.uk/comment/2025/0…

“The question of having children is not just the shape that your own personal life will take, but it is also a fundamental question that we sometimes call the question of the worth of human life.” 💬 In series finale of #ReadingOurTimes, @theosnick speaks with @a_n_a_berg on her…

Birth rates are declining in the West and all over the world. 📉 This is about more than environmental or economic considerations, but reflective of a philosophical shift in how we see ourselves. Catch @theosnick in discussion with @a_n_a_berg on #ReadingOurTimes 👇

Why are we having so few children? Ah, now there's a question. In conversation with @a_n_a_berg on her @OneworldNews book What are children for? tinyurl.com/37n7wrj7

"I'm not trying to say that choice is a bad thing at all. Choice is vital to our independence. That said, it isn't necessarily the solution to everything and some of our collective needs require us sometimes to decide that choice isn't our highest value." tinyurl.com/r323xt4b

Halfway through 2025, @bookdata’s Religion category is experiencing something of a Lazarus-style resurgence, with total sales rising by three quarters of a million pounds compared with the first six months of 2024 👇 ebx.sh/wSUVpc

"Our sense of ourselves as free, and what that means, has evolved over time. I think humans do seek freedom in some form, but what they mean by that can be very different in different times and places." Analysing freedom and choice on... tinyurl.com/r323xt4b

Choice, choice, choice. Everything is choice. These days, to deny someone freedom of choice is almost to deny them their humanity. Where did this come from? Me in conversation with Sophia Rosenfeld on The Age of Choice: tinyurl.com/r323xt4b

"There's a knowledge you derive from a test tube, when everything else is just wishy washy nonsense, on the one hand. But on the other there's a postmodernist approach… Western truth, white truth, male truth, my truth… this is a pretty slippery slope." tinyurl.com/y9kbcfrc

"For all the immense flaws of Western civilization, many of the goods that we take for granted - individualism, parliamentary democracy, belief in human equality, science itself - these derive from Christian culture." tinyurl.com/y9kbcfrc

In our latest blog, the Theos team reflects on this affair from a diverse range of political beliefs and Christian traditions. Read more below 👇 @theosnick @hannahmerich @GLapshynov theosthinktank.co.uk/comment/2025/0…

It's one thing to say that Christianity has a richer account of the human person than secular alternatives. But that prompts an inevitable response from the sceptic who might say, “ultimately the comfort that it offers is spurious because atheism is true.” tinyurl.com/yw69cfnk

"He rang me up and said 'Rupert I'm a lifelong agnostic. I can't speak to any of the philosophy or theology in your book. The point is that Richard is wrong about the science let alone the theology.'" I speak to Rupert Shortt on science, religion & Dawkins tinyurl.com/yw69cfnk