Chalmers Institute

The Faith and Society Lectures

Religion EN ↓ 4 episodes

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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Chalmers Institute

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Religion

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Jun 8, 2026

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#4 - Mark Meynell - From Britain's Blitz to Kyiv's Nightly Attacks 08.06.2026

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 resp...

#3 - Prof. Andrew Torrance - Why does Science Need Theology? 01.02.2026

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.

#2 - Prof. Oliver O’Donovan - What is Political Theology? 14.12.2025

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.

#1 - Dr Oliver Langworthy - Christianity, Sincerity, and Why the Early Church Still Matters 26.09.2025

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.

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