Tag Archives: Methodist Church

Cost of Dying and Other News

Posted on October 23, 2015 by Clive D. Field

Cost of dying Insurance company SunLife released the report of its ninth annual survey of the cost of dying on 13 October 2015. It was based on interviews conducted by YouGov, online on 8-20 May 2015 among 1,507 UK … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religious prejudice, Rites of Passage, Survey news | Tagged Baha'is, Baptist Union, China, Christine Brewster, church attendance, church growth, church membership, Church of England, churches, Churches Trust for Cumbria, churchmanship, clergy fees, Crime Survey for England and Wales, Cumbria, Dalai Lama, Daniel Staetsky, Free Tibet Campaign, funerals, Gemma Penny, Home Office, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Jewish Chronicle, Jews, Jonathan Boyd, Journal of Religious History, Leslie Francis, Mandy Robbins, Mental Health Religion and Culture, Methodist Church, Ministry of Justice, Muslims, orthodox Jews, personality differences, Peter Smith, prisoners, psychological well-being, religious hate crimes, religious prejudice, Rural Theology, SunLife, Tibet, undergraduate students, United Reformed Church, Wales, YouGov | Leave a comment

Current Voting Intentions and Other News

Posted on October 5, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Current voting intentions We are almost through the party political conference season for another year, and the 2015 general election campaign seems already to have started, so it is perhaps an appropriate time to review the state of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Survey news | Tagged armed forces, Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, Church in Wales, church membership, Clive Field, ComRes, David Graham, Faith schools, finance, House of Commons Library, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Iraq, Islamic State, ITV News, Jewish identity, Jonathan Rodell, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Lord Ashcroft Polls, Methodism, Methodist Church, Ministry of Defence, National Jewish Student Survey, Populus, Religious Affiliation, Robert Schofield, spirituality, Sunday Times, Syria, The Independent, voting intention, YouGov | 2 Comments

Trojan Horse Plot and Other News

Posted on June 12, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Trojan horse plot Two-thirds of the British public think there is substance behind the allegations of a ‘Trojan horse’ plot whereby hardline Muslim groups have attempted to take over certain schools in Birmingham. However, opinion is divided about where … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Rites of Passage, Survey news | Tagged BBC, Birmingham, charitable giving, Christian country, ComRes, Islamophobia, marriages, Methodist Church, Muslims, Office for National Statistics, places of worship, schools, Sunday Times, Trojan Horse plot, YouGov | Leave a comment

Jewish and Muslim Press and Other News

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Clive D. Field

Jewish press The Jewish Chronicle (The JC) is Britain’s longest established Jewish weekly newspaper, being founded as far back as 1841 (with its entire archive available online), and its headquarters are in London. Its current edition (4 April 2014, p. … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news | Tagged Audit Bureau of Circulation, British Veterinary Association, church attendance, church membership, Hamodia, Jewish Chronicle, Jewish News, Jewish Telegraph, Jewish Tribune, Methodist Church, Methodist Recorder, Muslim News, Muslim Weekly, newspapers, Populus, press, Religious Affiliation, religious slaughter, shechita, social grade, stunning | Leave a comment

Things Unseen and Other News

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Clive D. Field

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 | Leave a comment

Religious Marriages and Other News

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Clive D. Field

Seven new sources of British religious statistics feature in today’s bulletin, leading with the latest set of official annual figures on the mode of solemnization of marriages in England and Wales. Marriages (England and Wales), 2011 The number of marriages … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, News from religious organisations, Official data, Rites of Passage, Survey news | Tagged Andrew Village, cause of evil, cause of good, church attendance, church membership, Church of England, churchmanship, clergy, Clive Field, ComRes, Creationism, evolution, funerals, global threats, God, hymns, Ipsos-MORI, Islamic extremist groups, Islamophobia, Journal of Empirical Theology, Marie Curie Cancer Care, marriages, Methodist Church, Office for National Statistics, origins of life, Pew Global Attitudes Project, Princeton Survey Research Associates International, psychological type, Religious Affiliation, religious leaders, rites of passage, The Sun, Wellcome Trust Monitor, YouGov, young people | Leave a comment

Muslim and Christian News

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Clive D. Field

For a third week running, Muslims dominate the religious statistical news post-Woolwich, but we also find space for four short items on Christians. ‘Hate preachers’ The brutal murder by two Islamists of Drummer Lee Rigby on the streets of Woolwich … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Religious Census, Survey news | Tagged Andrew Gilligan, Bible Society, Britishness, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Census, Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity, children, Church of England Newspaper, comprehensive schools, ComRes, diaconate, Fair Admissions Campaign, Faith schools, government, hate preachers, integration, Islamophobia, Lewis Burton, Methodist Church, migrants, Muslims, Peter Brierley, radicalization, singles, Stephen Jivraj, Sunday Mirror, Sunday Telegraph, Sutton Trust, Tell MAMA, YouGov, YouGov@Cambridge | Leave a comment

Churchgoing in York and Other News

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Clive D. Field

Herewith three news items which have come to hand during the final week of October: Churchgoing in York The churchgoing history of York from 1764 to the present day is recounted, statistically, in part II (chapter 6, pp. 113-56) of … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Survey news | Tagged Anti-Semitism, Back to Church Sunday, Baptist Union, BIG Welcome, Christianophobia, Christians, church attendance, church growth, David Goodhew, Elim Pentecostal Church, Islamophobia, Jews, Methodist Church, mission, Muslims, prejudice, Religious discrimination, Robin Gill, York, YouGov | Leave a comment

Some Historical Religious Statistics

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Clive D. Field

Although much of BRIN’s focus, and probably the majority of our reader interest, lies in the area of contemporary British religious statistics, we continue to delve into historical data and will periodically feature them in our posts. Here are three … Continue reading →

Posted in church attendance, Historical studies | Tagged 1851 Religious Census, Chris Paton, church attendance, church membership, Clive Field, demography, fertility, First World War, Methodism, Methodist Church, mortality, nuptiality, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society, religious belonging, The National Archives, Your Family History | 1 Comment

Back to Church Sunday, 2011

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Clive D. Field

An extra 77,000 people attended UK places of worship on Back to Church Sunday (25 September) this year, according to a Church of England press release on 25 November 2011, with congregations increasing by nearly a quarter at participating churches … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Methodist Church

Cost of Dying and Other News

Current Voting Intentions and Other News

Things Unseen and Other News

Religious Marriages and Other News

Muslim and Christian News

Churchgoing in York and Other News

Some Historical Religious Statistics

Back to Church Sunday, 2011

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