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The Symposium: Nick Spencer and Rowan Williams: ‘True human welfare’

The Symposium: Nick Spencer and Rowan Williams: ‘True human welfare’

Nick Spencer speaks on welfare for The Symposium by The Church Times. 21/08/2026

The Church Times’ new four–part series, The Symposium, continues with a talk by Dr Nick Spencer, senior fellow of Theos, and a response by the former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams.

The talks were given in July 2026 at the event “Public faith, common good, Christian social order,”, organised by St John’s College, Cambridge, in conjunction with the diocese of Ely and the Church Times.

Listen to the episode 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 21 August 2026

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