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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Wellcome Trust Monitor
Among the datasets released this month by the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) is that for the Wellcome Trust Monitor 1, 2009 (SN 6889). A suite of technical documentation can be found at: http://www.esds.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=6889&key=6889 The Monitor (expected to be … Continue reading
Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged alternative medicine, commencement of life, Creationism, Economic and Social Data Service, Elizabeth Clery, evolution, homeopathy, horoscopes, Miranda Phillips, NatCen, National Centre for Social Research, origins of life, pseudoscience, Sarah Butt, Varunie Abeywardana, Wellcome Trust
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Baptist Times (1855-2011)
The Baptist Times, Britain’s longest-running weekly Free Church newspaper, is to cease publication of both print and digital editions at the end of this year, its directors have announced recently. Falling circulation and advertising revenue have been blamed. The paper … Continue reading
Marginalized Christians?
The All Party Parliamentary Group ‘Christians in Parliament’, chaired by Conservative MP Gary Streeter, is currently conducting the ‘Clearing the Ground’ inquiry, which seeks to establish whether changes to the law and recent court decisions have adversely affected Christian freedoms … Continue reading
A Place for Pride
‘People who are religious are more likely to be patriotic than are those who self-define as atheists or non-believers.’ So claims a report launched today by the think-tank Demos, and based on interviews with a representative sample of 2,086 adult … Continue reading
Religiously Aggravated Offending in Scotland, 2010-11
The Justice Committee of the Scottish Parliament is meeting next Tuesday to consider Stage 2 amendments to the (relatively controversial) Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Bill, nicknamed the ‘Football Act’, which will give Scottish police more powers … Continue reading
Posted in Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate
Tagged Angela Morgan, Ben Cavanagh, crime, football, hate crime, Kathleen Doyle, Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Bill, Protestantism, religiously aggravated offending, Roman Catholicism, Scotland, Scottish Government, sectarianism
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GRAS is Greener – Furlong Table, 2010
‘The Church of England is a third of the way to gender equality’, according to the third edition of the Furlong Table of women clergy recently issued by GRAS (Group for Rescinding the Act of Synod). Named in honour of … Continue reading
Religion in Western Europe and the USA
The latest report from the Pew Global Attitudes Project, on the values gap between America and Western Europe (including on three religious indicators), was published today, with the general headline of ‘American exceptionalism subsides’ (although this was less applicable to … Continue reading
Unlucky 13 Hits the Property Market
One manifestation of the persistence of superstition in Britain is the still widespread belief among adults that certain numbers can be associated with good or bad luck. In particular, the number 13 is considered to be unlucky by about one … Continue reading
Clergy Experience of Appointments
Interviews for clergy appointments often last for less than one hour, end up as one-way questioning, lack clarity, and assume a rather secular air, according to a survey recently released by 3D Coaching, which provides coaching and organizational development services … Continue reading
Posted in Survey news
Tagged 3D Coaching, appointments, Church of England, clergy, interviews
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