Tag Archives: Peter Brierley

UK Religious Trends to 2020

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Some fascinating (but necessarily speculative) insights into ten key current religious, demographic and other changes in the UK and their potential impact upon the Churches are contained in a new publication by Peter Brierley, head of Brierley Consultancy. Entitled Major … Continue reading →

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Facing the Axe? Diocese of Bradford in the Headlights

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Periodic reports about Islam overtaking the Church of England in terms of the number of worshippers have been a feature of media life for much of the past decade. The latest variant on the theme is to be found in … Continue reading →

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Counting Catholics

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Siobhan McAndrew

Andrew Brown of the Guardian has just written a very interesting article on the problems of calculating the size of the Catholic community. The Catholic Church defines the Catholic community as those people who have been baptised living within England and Wales. Continue reading →

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Church Attendance in England, 2005

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Siobhan McAndrew

The debate over the Christian Research data last week, together with coverage of the papal visit, led me to look at church attendance data from the 2005 English Church Census. I wanted to look again to see which areas of England had higher rates of church attendance, and specifically which areas looked more Catholic.
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Christian Research and Churchgoing

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Two articles in yesterday’s broadsheet press gave somewhat conflicting assessments of the state of religion in contemporary Britain, in the lead-in to the papal visit to Britain, which starts next Thursday. Writing in The Guardian, Julian Glover portrayed ‘a nation … Continue reading →

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Pentecost Postponed? Prospects for Churchgoing

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Clive D. Field

A post on the Christian Today website reports on the talk given recently by Dr Peter Brierley of Brierley Research at the third annual Pentecost Festival in London. In it he painted a gloomy picture of the prospects for church … Continue reading →

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Future Role of Bishops in the Church of England

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The Church of England Evangelical Council, founded by John Stott in 1960 to provide a collective evangelical voice in the Church of England, has recently published a report on The Future Role of Bishops in the Church of England, which … Continue reading →

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English Church Census, 2005 – Dataset Released

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Clive D. Field

On 30 March the Economic and Social Data Service released for secondary analysis the dataset from the 2005 English church census, conducted on 8 May of that year under the auspices of Dr Peter Brierley of Christian Research and sponsored … Continue reading →

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Global Religious Trends to 2020

Posted on February 12, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Anybody using British religious statistics in a comparative context may find a new discussion paper by Peter Brierley (head of Brierley Consultancy) of interest. It is entitled Global Religious Trends, 2010 to 2020 and has been prepared for this year’s … Continue reading →

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News from Christian Research

Posted on January 28, 2010 by Clive D. Field

On 18 January the Bible Society announced changes to its leadership team, one of which was the appointment of Stuart Rivers as Executive Director of Enterprises. He previously worked for Ericsson and, for the past four years, as an officer … Continue reading →

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