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How is the welfare landscape changing?

How is the welfare landscape changing?

Nick Spencer writes for the Church Times, contending that welfare should meet more than material needs. 11/10/2024

Read the Church Times comment piece here.

This is an edited extract from Nick Spencer’s article written for the October 2024 edition of Crucible: The journal of Christian social ethics. You can read the full article 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 11 October 2024

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