Nick Spencer tackles a much-debated question: why did modern science emerge when and where it did?
Nick Spencer tackles a much-debated question: why did modern science emerge when and where it did?
Nick Spencer revisits – and complicates – the stories of Galileo and Darwin.
Nick Spencer offers some ways of understanding Christianity’s complex relationship with science.
Nick Spencer warns of what happens when we forget who we are and where we come from.
Nick Spencer explains that not all Enlightenments were created equal.
Nick Spencer challenges the idea that nothing much happened before Voltaire or Kant.
Nick Spencer paints the period between Rome and the Middle Ages in broad brushstrokes.
Nick Spencer says the “invention of the individual” was theoretical and practical – but also slow.
Nick Spencer takes on some of our most problematic misunderstandings of the past.
Nick Spencer describes the paradoxical upside to one of the church’s less savoury historical episodes.
Nick Spencer unpacks the tension at the heart of the Christian faith.
Nick Spencer explains how coercion came to seem ok to some Christians – and the irony of that.
