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The future is endless. Once you buy into that, the idea of progress, whereby humanity would, over time, through scientific learning, understand & master the universe, you have the idea of a future which is material, but which is attaining God like mastery. tinyurl.com/2t8sk2tb

"What environmentalism has done is it has contradicted an idea of progress, which is providing a secular understanding of meaning, of what it means to be human, without offering something to replace it." The Meaning of Growth CUSP Theos tinyurl.com/2t8sk2tb

In the eternal quest to get ppl to read more good books about big ideas, Reading our Times this series tackles choice children growth religion sex democracy & the future of the West Ian Leslie Rob Henderson Sarah O'Connor James Marriott Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 tinyurl.com/yrzm389t

I asked ChatGPT whether Pope Leo XIV had ever used the phrase "playing God". I got this response. I could have sworn something was going on in Rome last month.

“You might see this as a single crisis, an environmental crisis, a physical crisis. Beyond that, it's also a political crisis… But fundamentally, I think it’s a philosophical or even a theological crisis... the fundamental cause of political inaction” : tinyurl.com/2t8sk2tb

Surprised and delighted to receive this in the post this morning, by the brilliant ⁦Mark Vernon⁩ . Hugely looking forward to reading it . Thanks Mark

“Asking about the limits to growth is not just an interesting policy question. What we're doing here is not just questioning how we should navigate the policy minefield. We're fundamentally questioning who we are, what is our foundation of our existence.” tinyurl.com/2t8sk2tb

Lots of debate today from Chris Coghlan MP 🔶 Tim Stanley PoliticsHome et al on the proper role of religious in the assisted dying debate. Here is the Theos take on this tinyurl.com/bdhcpfjb

This week on Reading our Times, in conversation with Rupert Shortt: Would it matter if Christianity were eclipsed? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/wou…

If you are interested in what the discovery of alien life would mean for humanity - and how could you not be? - please join me tomorrow for an on-line talk with Scientific and Medical Network. Details here: tinyurl.com/2tbd2dkc

"He rang me up and said 'Rupert I'm a lifelong agnostic. I can't speak to any of the philosophy or theology in your book. The point is that Richard is wrong about the science let alone the theology.'" I speak to Rupert Shortt on science, religion & Dawkins tinyurl.com/yw69cfnk

It's one thing to say that Christianity has a richer account of the human person than secular alternatives. But that prompts an inevitable response from the sceptic who might say, “ultimately the comfort that it offers is spurious because atheism is true.” tinyurl.com/yw69cfnk

In our latest blog, the Theos team reflects on this affair from a diverse range of political beliefs and Christian traditions. Read more below 👇 Nick Spencer Hannah Rich George Lapshynov theosthinktank.co.uk/comment/2025/0…

When MP Chris Coghlan was denied the eucharist after voting for the assisted dying bill, opinions were split: who acted rightly? And how far should our faith affect our public actions? Read Nick Spencer of @theosthinktank's #ConnectingWithCulture: bit.ly/4kphDWa

"For all the immense flaws of Western civilization, many of the goods that we take for granted - individualism, parliamentary democracy, belief in human equality, science itself - these derive from Christian culture." tinyurl.com/y9kbcfrc

"There's a knowledge you derive from a test tube, when everything else is just wishy washy nonsense, on the one hand. But on the other there's a postmodernist approach… Western truth, white truth, male truth, my truth… this is a pretty slippery slope." tinyurl.com/y9kbcfrc

Choice, choice, choice. Everything is choice. These days, to deny someone freedom of choice is almost to deny them their humanity. Where did this come from? Me in conversation with Sophia Rosenfeld on The Age of Choice: tinyurl.com/r323xt4b

"Our sense of ourselves as free, and what that means, has evolved over time. I think humans do seek freedom in some form, but what they mean by that can be very different in different times and places." Analysing freedom and choice on... tinyurl.com/r323xt4b

Halfway through 2025, NielsenIQ BookData’s Religion category is experiencing something of a Lazarus-style resurgence, with total sales rising by three quarters of a million pounds compared with the first six months of 2024 👇 ebx.sh/wSUVpc

"I'm not trying to say that choice is a bad thing at all. Choice is vital to our independence. That said, it isn't necessarily the solution to everything and some of our collective needs require us sometimes to decide that choice isn't our highest value." tinyurl.com/r323xt4b