Esmé Partridge
@EsmeLKPartridge
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Occasional writer. Researcher @Theosthinktank. Fellow @Civic_future. MPhil Philosophy of Religion @Cambridge_Uni
London, England
Joined June 2012
My first long essay in a while - on Platonic and Chinese philosophies of music and how they relate to the decline of civilisation
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‘Exposure to a vast plurality of belief systems - in a way that is, inevitably, compressed - risks a shallow engagement with all of them that is more likely to confuse than to inspire a clear moral or spiritual ideal’ My debut for @Theosthinktank on RE as ‘Worldview Education’👇
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What is religious education for? 🏫 Following recommendations to include #RE in the National Curriculum, @EsmeLKPartridge reflects on the purpose of RE, moral formation, and how schools might balance pluralism with meaningful engagement. Find out more: https://t.co/W04n2l30m8
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What is religious education for? 🏫 Following recommendations to include #RE in the National Curriculum, @EsmeLKPartridge reflects on the purpose of RE, moral formation, and how schools might balance pluralism with meaningful engagement.
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My first blog out today, on how RE has evolved into ‘Worldviews Education’ and what that means for children’s spiritual and character formation: https://t.co/q96HWnxMTz
theosthinktank.co.uk
What lies ahead for RE? Esmé Partridge unpacks the evolving landscape of worldviews education and citizenship. 14/11/2025
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Only two spaces left on the Renaissance Program in Florence - where I will be speaking on ‘Visions of Unity’ and ideas of world harmony in Ficino, Francesco Giorgi, Shakespeare and Jean Bodin 🌀 https://t.co/XMeZ1Dc2A9
therenaissanceprogram.com
Five unforgettable days in Florence: Explore the timeless ideas that shaped the Renaissance.
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I love Bloomsbury because there is literally a woman opposite me in the library translating the Zoroastian Gathas from her laptop
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Huge thanks to @EsmeLKPartridge for being in conversation with me about "God is an Englishman" for the Shute Festival at Lyme Regis.
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A pleasure to speak to @j_amesmarriott for this piece on the quiet revival:
We've long assumed that modern society is destined become ever more secular. But recently there have been reports of growing enthusiasm for religious belief among young people. Could God make a comeback? My Times essay on the "quiet revival"
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There is no one better I could be reading ahead of my Confirmation than C.S. Lewis, defender of the Tao shared by all religions (my perennialist sympathies will never quite die) but ultimately, uncompromisingly, the miracle of Christ
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WATCH LIVE: The UnHerd Club welcomes @EsmeLKPartridge and @platospodcasts for an exclusive masterclass on the meaning and mythos of William Blake, the painter and poet, who has become a model for a new kind of rebellious spirituality.
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Enjoyed chatting with @_F_B_G_ for the @spectator, on the search for the next Archbishop of Canterbury…
🎙️ The Edition: Peerless – the purge of the hereditary peers 🔸 Charles Moore and @SophiaFalkner on Keir’s peer purge 🔸 @_F_B_G_ and @EsmeLKPartridge on how to pick an archbishop 🔸 @patrick_kidd and Dr Tom Webb: is AI ruining sport? Listen here 👇 https://t.co/zYXG01zObY
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Oxford and London events coming up with @unherd with @EsmeLKPartridge and at Blackwells with @NigelWarburton.
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Join me and Mark Vernon at @unherd next month for an evening of poetry, art and mysticism🪽 Tickets below!
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