Tag Archives: death

Remembering Methodism’s Great War Dead

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Clive Field

Today is Remembrance Sunday and the ninety-fourth Armistice Day since hostilities in the Great War ended on 11 November 1918. Some 6,146,574 Britons served with the armed forces during the conflict, of whom 722,785 were killed, 1,676,037 were wounded, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies | Tagged death, First World War, Great War, Methodism, mortality, Wesleyan Methodist Church | Leave a comment

Faith and Death

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Clive Field

Although one-half of all Britons claimed not to belong to any religion in the latest (2010) British Social Attitudes Survey, 85% of the dying subscribe to some faith, according to a Government survey of their relatives published on 3 July … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Survey news | Tagged bereavement, death, Department for Health, end-of-life care, Office for National Statistics, Religious Affiliation, religious leaders, spiritual support, VOICES | 1 Comment

21st Century Evangelicals – The Sequel

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Clive Field

The UK’s evangelical Christians are far more likely to be active in their communities than the average person, according to a new report from the Evangelical Alliance – Does Belief Touch Society? – published on 5 September. Hard copies can … Continue reading →

Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, church attendance, News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news | Tagged Afghanistan, Alternative Vote, charity trustees, Christian Research, civic participation, cross, crucifixion, death, Easter, Evangelical Alliance, evangelicals, everlasting life, God, Good Friday, Iraq, Jesus Christ, judgment, Lent, Libya, local councillors, magistrates, marriage, political parties, politics, religious festivals, Resurrection, same-sex partnerships, school governors, trade unions, voting | 1 Comment

Death and Dying in Eastern England

Posted on May 22, 2011 by Clive Field

People of faith are marginally more likely to be comfortable discussing death in general and their own death in particular than those without a religion, and they are also rather more likely to have made end-of-life plans. However, the differences … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged death, dying, end of life, Ipsos-MORI, NHS East of England | 2 Comments

The Ways We Say Goodbye

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Clive Field

Even for those not overtly religious in their everyday lives, the three rites of passage (birth/baptism, marriage and death – or, colloquially put, hatching, matching and dispatching) have traditionally been a point of contact with institutional religion. Church of England … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged Co-operative Funeralcare, death, funerals, humanism, ICM Research, rites of passage | 4 Comments

Long-Living Methodists

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Clive Field

The current issue (24 June 2010, p. 2) of the Methodist Recorder, the weekly newspaper for Methodists in Great Britain, reports the death of Stanley Lucas of Cornwall. Aged 110 (he was born on 15 January 1900), he was thought … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations | Tagged abstinence, Clive Field, death, demography, Kenneth Brown, life expectancy, Methodism, Methodist Recorder, mortality, Tim Allison | 3 Comments