Nick Spencer

Nick Spencer is Senior Fellow at Theos, the religion and society think tank. He studied English Literature and History at Oxford and then took his PhD at Cambridge on political theology. He is the author of a number of books, including (most recently) The Landscapes of Science and Religion: what are we disagreeing about? (OUP, 2025), Playing God: science, religion and the future of humanity (SPCK, 2024), Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion (OneWorld, 2023).

Nick fronted the BBC Radio 4 series The Secret History of Science and Religion, and hosts the podcast Reading our Times, which traces the big issues of the day through to their philosophical and theological roots, by talking to some of the world’s leading thinkers and authors.