• Surveys reveal widening gulf between Catholics and Church teaching

    Posted on: 18/11/13  |  Posted By: Linda Woodhead  |  Category: Blog

    As the Vatican surveys the opinions of Catholics in dioceses and parishes around the world, three large polls I carried out this year with YouGov for the Westminster Faith Debates reveal a profile of British Catholics adrift from…

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  • What Catholics really think about sex

    Posted on: 08/11/13  |  Posted By: Linda Woodhead  |  Category: Blog

    A survey of Catholic opinion is to be undertaken to inform the Synod of Bishops which will meet in 2014 to discuss “the pastoral challenges of the family.” As it happens, I recently carried out extensive surveys of Catholic…

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  • Hard Core with Soft Edges: the Catholic Church’s appeal to young people in the Philippines

    Posted on: 28/10/13  |  Posted By: Linda Woodhead  |  Category: Blog

    The Philippines is the only country in the world which still outlaws divorce. It outlaws abortion too. The Catholic hierarchy are proud of that record and want to safeguard it. They’ve recently been fighting tooth and nail…

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  • The Church of England is losing followers faster than God

    Posted on: 10/10/13  |  Posted By: Linda Woodhead  |  Category: Blog

    Of all the findings from our YouGov for Westminster Faith Debates surveys, these two graphs tell the most powerful story about the Church of England’s decline. They need to be viewed together: Graph 1: Religious affiliation…

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  • Faith schools: why everyone lies

    Posted on: 10/10/13  |  Posted By: Andrew Brown  |  Category: Blog

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    In September we published findings from our Westminster Faith Debate survey on faith schools (see Research). The Guardian published a piece by Zoe Williams citing the poll, which took a strong anti-faith schools line (the…

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  • Care for the poor is a luxury the Church of England can’t afford

    Posted on: 10/10/13  |  Posted By: Linda Woodhead  |  Category: Blog

    We are living through a very significant historical change: the collapse of the historic churches which have shaped British society and culture. The Church of England, by law established, leads the way. Our YouGov for the…

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recent posts

  • Gladiators, humanists and religion: a battle over collective worship

    Posted on: 10/01/2020

    Under current legislation, all schools in England and Wales must provide daily acts of ‘broadly Christian’ collective worship for their pupils. Although it is no longer enforced, this is a much-contested requirement seemingly…

  • GCSE Religious Studies numbers plummeting outside the faith school sector, new report finds

    Posted on: 19/08/2019

    Thanks to a grant from the Culham St Gabriel’s Trust, and the work of my colleague Mi Young Ahn, now a research fellow at UCL Institute of Education, I have been able this week to publish figures on the dramatic drop in…

  • Letter published in The Tablet

    Posted on: 06/08/2018

    RE syllabus A letter from Charles Clarke and Linda Woodhead, published in The Tablet on 2nd August 2018. In 2015, we published a set of recommendations on how to improve the quality of religious education in state schools, and…

 

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  • Youth work and church growth: what works

    Posted on: 12/12/2013

    My research into young people’s experiences of Christian youth work challenges the dominant assumption that it is the young that have rejected the church. It’s the churches which too often reject the young. I encountered many…

  • Quakers, (Same-Sex) Marriage and the State

    Posted on: 28/03/2014

    In 1663 Charles and Mary Appleby, a Quaker couple from Liskeard, Cornwall, were summoned and questioned by the mayor and eventually imprisoned in Launceston gaol. Their misdemeanour, according to the fellow Quaker who recorded…

  • Surveys reveal widening gulf between Catholics and Church teaching

    Posted on: 18/11/2013

    As the Vatican surveys the opinions of Catholics in dioceses and parishes around the world, three large polls I carried out this year with YouGov for the Westminster Faith Debates reveal a profile of British Catholics adrift from…

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