Nick Spencer - Doing Good: The Future of the Church? (N157)
Nomad Podcast23 Loka 2017

Nick Spencer - Doing Good: The Future of the Church? (N157)

Well, this is it, Dave Ward's final episode. After six years of podcasting, he's decided to go on to other things (probably something to do with horses...).

In his final episode, we're chatting with Nick Spencer, the Director of Research at Theos Think Tank, and author of The Evolution of the West: How Christianity Has Shaped Our Values. And we're asking him, what difference has Christianity really made to society, and what indications are there that it has a hopeful future?

“We shouldn’t romanticize it, it wasn’t perfect, but compared to the way that - particularly slaves, particularly women, particularly children, particularly the unborn, particularly the infirm - were treated, I think the church did a pretty good job.” - Nick Spencer

Interview starts at 19m 38s

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