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Where Did I Come From?: Nick Spencer speaks in Australia

Where Did I Come From?: Nick Spencer speaks in Australia

On 14th March 2018, Nick Spencer spoke at the 2018 Richard Johnson Lecture on “Where Did I Come From?: Christianity, Secularism and the Individual.”

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In March 2018, Nick Spencer spoke in Australia at the 2018 Richard Johnson Lecture, discussing the human tendency for selective amnesia. Nick looked at the values that have emerged in Western democracies and assesses which elements of our culture originate in Christianity.

Nick spoke on the 14th of March in Sydney and the 15th of March in Melbourne.

Listen to Nick speak about the Christian underpinnings of our values on the Life & Faith podcast, and watch his promotion of the events below.

 

Nick Spencer – Richard Johnson Lecture – Promo 1 from CPX on Vimeo.

 Image by beasternchen on Pixabay

Nick Spencer

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.

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