The rise of the Nones: Responding to modern unbelief

John McDade
28 December 2025, The Tablet

How can Christians speak of God when gospel and Church no longer hold the place in people’s social imaginary it once had?

It is a great pleasure to be invited to give the third of the Hayes–Towey Memorial Lecture series. My qualification is simple: like Michael Hayes and Anthony Towey, I come from an Irish Catholic background, and my theology has never really wandered far from that world, never far from what I think of as the hearth that warmed all of us across the ages. It was a world that conveyed the felt presence of God.

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