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Tag Archives: Bishops
Trust and Other News
Trust (1) Public trust in the Church of England is lower than in other non-political national institutions, according to the results of an Ipsos MORI survey for the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, which were published on 13 September 2014. … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religious Census, Survey news
Tagged air strikes, asylum, Bishops, British jihadists, Church of England, Church Times, clergy, dependent children, education, Eurotrack, freedom of religion, household income, Ipsos-MORI, Iraq, Islamic State, Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, MPs, Muslim leaders, Opinium Research, Populus, Premier Christian Radio, RAJAR, ransoms, Religious Affiliation, religious census, rights and freedoms, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, trust, YouGov
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Women in the Church and Other News
Women in the Church Prompted by the recent debate (and decisive vote) about women bishops in the Church of England’s General Synod, Opinium Research resolved to test public opinion about several facets of the role of women in the … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged Ashers Baking Company, Bishops, British Future, British values, Christian businesses, Christian Institute, Church of England, ComRes, disestablishment, Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, gender equality, ICM Research, ITV News, Opinium Research, ordination of women, priests, respect for religion and beliefs, Roman Catholic Church, same-sex marriage
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St Andrew’s Day and Other News
Today is St Andrew’s Day, as you might have noticed from the latest and attractive ‘Google doodle’. However, their patron saint’s day is not going to be much celebrated by Scots, according to the first of nine reports in today’s … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, People news, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Religious Census, Survey news
Tagged Bishops, Brierley Consultancy, British Social Attitudes Survey, census of population, church attendance, church growth, Church of England, Co-op Bank, David Voas, English Baccalaureate, George Carey, Greater London, John Hayward, Journal of Beliefs & Values, Leslie Francis, London City Mission, Mandy Robbins, mathematical modelling, Michael Whinney, National Association of Teachers of Religious Education, NATRE, Norwich, Office for National Statistics, patron saints, Paul Flowers, Peter Brierley, pyschological type profiling, Religious Affiliation, religious education, rural religion, schools, Scotland, St Andrew's Day, Sunday Times, The Conversation, urban religion, YouGov
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Things Unseen and Other News
The latest report from Theos heads the list of seven religious statistical news stories today, comprising a further attempt by the think-tank to explore the spiritual hinterland which lays beyond institutional religion and to counter the picture of unrelenting secularization … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news
Tagged Bishops, Britain Yearly Meeting, Christian Research, Church Commissioners, Church of England, clergy, ComRes, CTVC, discrimination, finance, God, Hazelmary Bull, healing, homosexuality, Jewish Chronicle, Jews, John Sawkins, Linda Woodhead, local preachers, Martin Hall, membership, Methodist Church, miracles, office costs, Peter Bull, prayer, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, Quakers, Religious Society of Friends, Scotland, spiritual forces, spirituality, St Luke’s Healthcare for the Clergy, Steve Preddy, Steven Cohen, stress, Supreme Court, Theos, Westminster Faith Debates, YouGov
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Trust in Clergy and Other News
While waiting for the first tests of public opinion to the sudden resignation of Benedict XVI as Pope, here is a batch of six recently-published sources of British religious statistics on a miscellany of subjects. Trust in clergy Clergy/priests are … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged abstinence, beginning of human life, bereavement, Bishops, Church of England, churchgoing, clergy, ComRes, conception, episcopate, gay bishops, Ipsos-MORI, Lent, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Michael Keulemans, Philip Brenner, priests, Religious Affiliation, religious festivals, Sociology of Religion, trust, truth, Westminster Faith Debates, women bishops, Xlibris, YouGov
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Welcome to 2013
Welcome to 2013! All of us at BRIN wish our readers every success and happiness in the New Year. We thank you for using our website (there have been over 360,000 page views to date). We sincerely hope that not … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news
Tagged 1960s, Archbishop of Canterbury, Automobile Association, Bishops, Boydell Press, Callum Brown, Christmas carols, Church Commissioners, Church of England, Classic FM, costs, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, demography, Hannah Stuart, Henry Jackson Society, Houriya Ahmed, media, Muslim Council of Britain, number 13, O Holy Night, Populus, public sphere, religious festivals, secularization, superstitions, The Guardian, triskaidekaphobia, vehicle registration plates, women
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House of Lords Reform
The Government’s House of Lords Reform Bill, which was tabled and thus received a First Reading in the House of Commons on 27 June 2012, proposes that the United Kingdom’s second Parliamentary chamber be reduced in size and become mainly … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Politics, Survey news
Tagged Bishops, Church of England, House of Lords, Lords Spiritual, Parliament, The Sun, YouGov
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Census Christians
‘UK residents who think of themselves as Christian show very low levels of Christian belief and practice’ and ‘are overwhelmingly secular in their attitudes on a range of issues from gay rights to religion in public life’, according to research … Continue reading
Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, church attendance, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged abortion, assisted suicide, Bible, Bishops, Census, Christians, Church and State, churchgoing, collective worship, Creationism, Daily Telegraph, Ekklesia, extra-marital sex, Faith schools, God, heaven, hell, homosexuality, hospital chaplaincy, House of Lords, Ipsos-MORI, Jesus Christ, morality, National Secular Society, official religion, prayer, public life, Religious Affiliation, religious education, Resurrection, Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (UK), schools, self-assessed religiosity, state religion
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Lords Spiritual
‘Six out of ten Brits think bishops should be booted out of the House of Lords after defeating plans to cap benefits at £26,000 a year.’ So declared The Sun on 25 January 2012, following the poll it commissioned from … Continue reading
Posted in Religion and Politics, Survey news
Tagged Bishops, Church and State, Church of England, House of Lords, John Packer, Parliament, The Sun, Welfare Reform Bill, YouGov
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Costing the Anglican Episcopate
The office and working costs of the 113 diocesan and suffragan bishops in the Church of England amounted to almost £15,600,000 during the year ending 31 December 2010, 4% more than in 2009, according to a 24-page report released by … Continue reading
Posted in News from religious organisations
Tagged Bishops, Church Commissioners, Church of England, costs, expenditure, finance
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