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Nick Spencer

Nick is Senior Fellow at Theos. He is the author of a number of books and reports, including Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion (Oneworld, 2023), The Political Samaritan: how power hijacked a parable (Bloomsbury, 2017), The Evolution of the West (SPCK, 2016) and Atheists: The Origin of the Species (Bloomsbury, 2014). He is host of the podcast Reading Our Times.

Post–religious Britain?: The faith of the faithless

Nick Spencer and Holly Weldin argue that the traditional division of people into religious and non–religious camps is unsustainable.

Atheism, Religion

Why We Believe and Why We Don’t – an interview with Prof. Graham Ward

Nick Spencer talks to Prof. Graham Ward about what makes belief believable

Exodus: Gods, Kings and Politics

As a new Biblical blockbuster is released, Nick Spencer talks to John Coffey about how the story of Exodus has transformed Western politics.

It’s intelligence all the way down

Nick Spencer talks to Rowan Williams about the enduring struggle of how to talk about God.

There is an alternative

Nick Spencer talks to Clifford Longley about his newTheos report: Just Money

Politics, morality and the media

Nick Spencer speaks to Peter Oborne for Third Way Magazine.

Atheists: The Origin of the Species

A book recounting the historical development of atheism, showing that atheism has always been a cluster of different social and political phenomena.

Atheism, History, Religion

Critiquing Liberalism from the Inside

Nick Spencer meets Larry Siedentop, author of Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism

What Would Keynes Do?

Nick Spencer talk to the distinguished economic historian Robert Skidelsky about our current economic woes

Daniel Dennett and Jesus Christ

Nick Spencer interviews the US philosopher and atheist Professor Daniel Dennett for Third Way magazine.

Equality, Freedom, and Religion

Nick Spencer interviews Roger Trigg about his new book, examining the legal situation with regard to religious freedom

What Money Can’t Buy

Nick Spencer speaks to Professor Michael Sandel about the moral limits of markets