Today Nick Spencer, Director of Studies at Theos, joined Dave Bookless, National Director for A Rocha UK, in speaking at the Stapleford Centre's annual conference in Swanwick, Derbyshire.

The conference explored issues of environmental, social and economic sustainability in relation to education. It asked whether there was a distinctive broader Christian perspective on, and response to, these issues, and, in particular, how they should affect the approach to learning and teaching across the whole teaching curriculum?

Nick Spencer argued that not only did Christian thinking have a serious and significant contribution to make to the growing debate on sustainability, but that it offered an alternative and more useful 'category', that of 'fruitfulness', for us to understand and engage with the issues.