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Bible–reading = mass literacy?

Bible–reading = mass literacy?

Nick Spencer unpacks the relationship between Bible–reading and mass literacy for the Church Times. 06/02/2026

”In our ever spiralling, splenetic, and spiteful culture wars, there is at least one thing on which we can all agree, whether we be woke Liberal or gammon Reform: reading is good for you.”

Nick Spencer unpacks the relationship between Bible–reading and mass literacy for the Church Times. 

Read it here.


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Nick Spencer

Nick Spencer

Nick is Senior Fellow at Theos. He is the author of The Landscapes of Science and Religion (OUP, 2025), Playing God: Science, Religion and the Future of Humanity (2024), and Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion (Oneworld, 2023). Nick is host of the podcast Reading Our Times.

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Posted 6 February 2026

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