Category - church attendence

Community use of redundant church buildings

Press Office — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:53:20 +0000

Responding to UK government Culture Secretary Andy Burnham's suggestion that redundant church buildings should be turned into gyms or community centres, Simon Barrow, co-director of the religion an

Report on church attendance, Radio 5 Live Breakfast Show, 3rd April 2007

Press Office — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:44:06 +0000

Discussion on Tearfund's report on church observance and attendance.

FAQ 5: Are the churches on the way out? What might that mean?

sysadmin — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:57:33 +0000

The evidence suggests that many inherited religious institutions are dying. But the real impulse of faith is in movements not monuments.

WCC chief notes shift from West to South in world Christianity

staff writers — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:58:51 +0000

The head of the World Council of Churches has lamented the decline of Christianity in the West, while also praising rapid growth of the faith in developing countries - reports Ecumeical News International (ENI).

Dutch churches reap the rewards of smallness

staff writers — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:32:56 +0000

Despite declining membership, five Dutch denominations have generated their best-ever result in their annual fundraising drive, which organisers say generates more money than any other campaign in the Netherlands - writes Andreas Havinga for Ecumenical News International (ENI).

Surprise fall in Sunday church attendance

staff writers — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:59:30 +0000

Figures just released by the Church of England record that regular Sunday church attendance in 2005 fell by over two per cent.

What to do with ageing churches ‚ Sunday Programme, Radio 4, 15th October 2006

Jonathan Bartley — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:02:10 +0000

A six minute polemic on Radio 4’s Sunday Programme on how church buildings are hamper

Faith and Politics After Christendom

Press Office — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:15:18 +0000

This book examines the changing relationship between faith and politics. For the best part of 1700 years, the institutional church has enjoyed a hand-in-hand relationship with government. Indeed, the church has often been seen as the glue that has stopped political systems from disintegrating into anarchy. But in this post-Christendom era the relation of Church and State has weakened to the point where the church can no longer claim to play any significant part in Government. What does the future hold? Where is it all heading? What should be done in the face of radicalised religion?

Jonathan Bartley

Subvertising ‚ BBC Radio 4's Today Programme 14th August 2003

Press Office — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:38:56 +0000

What the church could learn from Big Brother, church advertising and marketing

Church giving goes up as attendence falls

staff writers — Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:00:00 +0000

The Church of England is launching a radical review of its finances after warnings from dioceses that they could face bankruptcy - despite the fact that churchgoers are becoming more generous.