Tag Archives: funerals

Anglican Themes – and Funeral Hymns

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Clive Field

The cluster of news stories which have come to hand within the last four days mainly concern the Church of England, but a couple are also of wider interest: Church of England Growth? The Church of England launched a new … Continue reading →

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Anglican Churchgoing in 2010

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Clive Field

Attendance in the Church of England continues on its gently declining path, although there are one or two glimmers of hope, according to the 2010 provisional statistics which were released by the Research and Statistics Department of the Archbishops’ Council … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Rites of Passage | Tagged baptisms, Christmas, church attendance, Church of England, Easter, electoral roll, Fresh Expressions, funerals, marriages, religious festivals, Research and Statistics Department Archbishops' Council, rites of passage | 1 Comment

Listening to England

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Clive Field

The Church of England announced on 3 January that the Archbishops’ Council is committed to ‘listen to England’ by launching twin projects to examine and enhance the Church’s ministry at the moments of birth and death (i.e. christenings and funerals). … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Rites of Passage | Tagged Archbishops' Council, baptisms, christenings, Church of England, funerals, Gillian Oliver, Lynda Barley, rites of passage, weddings | 2 Comments

Church of England Statistics for Mission, 2009

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Clive Field

The provisional Church of England statistics for mission for 2009, released yesterday in the form of five tables and eight maps, ‘paint a mixed picture’, according to Revd Lynda Barley, the Church’s Head of Research and Statistics, quoted in an … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, visualisation | Tagged Anglicans, baptisms, Bob Jackson, Christmas, church attendance, Church of England, communicants, confirmations, Easter, electoral roll, Fresh Expressions, funerals, Lynda Barley, marriages, rites of passage, statistics for mission, thanksgivings | 4 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