Christian Humanist ~ Senior Fellow, Theos ~ NOW OUT: The Landscapes of Science and Religion: What are we disagreeing about?
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The new @Theosthinktank report ‘Beyond “Christian nationalism”: Measuring attitudes to Christianity and Britishness today’ is published today!
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"The abstract must always be grounded in the human." 💬
Listen to @theosnick and #RowanWilliams unpack true human welfare on The Symposium series by the @ChurchTimes and St John's College, Cambridge.
Listen back here or on the podcast platform of your choice: churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2…
What is true human welfare? The answer, I think, has something to do with Christian humanism. churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2…
Writing about Andy Burnham's Catholicism, I've invented something called "The Makerfield Window." See what you think: churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2…
The last in this series of Reading our Times and the last… well, not ever, but the podcast is changing (listen to the end!). In the meantime, a good question: what has Christianity ever done for England, with @BijanOmrani:
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"Who counts as human? More precisely, who counts as the kind of human to whom I owe obligations?" Great essay by @WestLondonMan in @commentmag on rediscovering Christian Humanism in the work of Olaudah Equiano tinyurl.com/4ayyyp7p
Brexit vote was 10 years ago tomorrow. It drew on, and supercharged, the debate about Britishness, so we @Theosthinktank have been working on new research looking at what (the British think) it means to be British today. Read more here: tinyurl.com/4xs8w883
No subject is as vulnerable to counter/claim as immigration. So perhaps we should have a calm, informed, intelligent conversation about it. I did, for @theosthinktank, with @alanmanning4 about his book Why immigration policy is hard. Listen here tinyurl.com/m9bwuf4d
Is Woke over? If it is, what comes next? If it's not, is it dying? And in any case, what even is "Woke"? The latest Reading our Times discusses The End of Woke by - and with - @andrewdoyle_com tinyurl.com/5acx4zv2
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"We are a spiritual species. Largely irrespective of what we actually believe in any formal sense... human beings and culture naturally and always gravitate to 'spiritual' language."
@theosnick explores what linguistics can tell us about humanity's spiritual dimension.
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This blog is adapted from @theosnick's opening remarks at a recent event in collaboration with the the Fetzer Institute and @LSEFaithCentre to mark the publication of the Fetzer book Retelling Sacred Stories.
Find out more here: fetzer.org/news/retelling-sa…
I recently went to Washington to a conference on Christian humanism. In a weird way, being in DC was like stepping back in time. 2000 years back. tinyurl.com/2wfzpxhc
In our current @Theosthinktank Reading our Times series on the rise of religious nationalism, we come to one of the most difficult topics, in conversation with Hannah Strømmen, namely how the far right weaponises the Bible. Sober listening. tinyurl.com/2nr9893a
On science and religion... I am very much looking forward to speaking at this on Thursday. Do join us if you can. tinyurl.com/bp95ej77
Religious nationalism isn't limited to Christian nationalism. In this week's Reading our Times from @Theosthinktank I talk to Sonia Faleiro about her book The Robe and the Sword, & how Buddhist nationalism is reshaping Asia: tinyurl.com/mrshjbnt
A genuinely interesting & perceptive account of what happened, and who was at, the Unite the Kingdom rally last Saturday by @Theosthinktank colleagues @GLapshynov & Coco Huggins: tinyurl.com/3tt47smk
How do politicians weaponise Christianity? An ever-relevant question, of particular significance of late, and the subject of my discussion with academic and MEP @cremer_tobias on @Theosthinktank's Reading our Times this week: tinyurl.com/5cr54pb5
