The Faith and Society Lectures

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How does faith shape our common life? Join leading thinkers, theologians, and public voices as they explore the big questions at the intersection of belief, culture, and society. From ethics to ecology, politics to personal transformation, these lectures invite you to reflect, wrestle, and imagine a better future together.

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  1. 1h ago

    #4 - Mark Meynell - From Britain's Blitz to Kyiv's Nightly Attacks

    Mark Meynell is an author and freelance speaker, and former European Director of Langham Preaching. In this episode, he draws on C.S. Lewis's wartime address "Learning in Wartime" to explore what faithful intellectual and cultural engagement looks like in times of crisis, considers how Lewis's insights apply to the war in Ukraine today, and asks how we as Christians ought to respond.

    55 min

  2. Feb 1

    #3 - Prof. Andrew Torrance - Why does Science Need Theology?

    Professor Andrew Torrance is a Professor of Theology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. In this lecture, he makes a multi-faceted case for why science needs theology, and explores what is at stake for scientific inquiry when theology is left aside.

    1 hr

  3. 12/14/2025

    #2 - Prof. Oliver O’Donovan - What is Political Theology?

    Professor Oliver O’Donovan is a leading Christian ethicist and political theologian, who has held professorial appointments at the University of Oxford and the University of Edinburgh. In this lecture, he maps the proper boundaries of political theology and considers the Church’s role in public life.

    1h 30m

  4. 09/26/2025

    #1 - Dr Oliver Langworthy - Christianity, Sincerity, and Why the Early Church Still Matters

    Dr Oliver Langworthy is a Lecturer in Divinity at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He opens the Chalmers Institute Faith and Society Lectures by showing how the earliest Christian communities faced struggles much like our own with sincerity, and how their example offers the Church today hope and inspiration for living faithfully.

    1h 4m
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How does faith shape our common life? Join leading thinkers, theologians, and public voices as they explore the big questions at the intersection of belief, culture, and society. From ethics to ecology, politics to personal transformation, these lectures invite you to reflect, wrestle, and imagine a better future together.

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