Evangelism UK

SCOLER goes live - online MA / PhD's

MA and PhD's in evangelism, fresh expressions, emerging church etc are now online at SCOLER. More will be added now live at: http://www.churcharmy.org.uk/scoler

MA and PhD evangelism research papers WANTED

The Churches Group for Evangelisation is working in partnership with the Sheffield Centre to provide open access to research papers in evangelism. Each thesis must be already formally accreditted, either MA or PhD, in a topic related to 'sharing the good news of Jesus Christ'. These papers are now wanted before the website 'SCOLER' goes public on June 1st: http://www.cte.org.uk/Publisher/Article.aspx?ID=310487

Sheffield Centre 'Letters home' from pioneer ministers

SC have just launched a new resource which you can see at: http://www.churcharmy.org.uk/ms/sc/sfc_lettershome.aspx

Survey 'Church! what's it ever done for you?

Rob Powys-Smith from Christian Research reports that 3,500 people have now completed the research questionnaire, but he would like many more to complete it via: https://www.snapsurveys.com/swh/surveypreview.asp?k=133235038613

Tomorrow's evangelism - 3 papers

The Sheffield Centre have posted their latest papers, one of which explore the action learning cycle as a model for conversion, see: http://www.churcharmy.org.uk/ms/sc/Evangelism/sfc_tomorrows_evangelism.aspx

Mission and church - modality and sodality

George Lings has explored these key words in a paper on the Sheffield Centre blog: http://sheffieldcentreresearch.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/understanding-mission-andchurch-better-through-modality-and-sodality/

Survey on how people 'Reconnect' with Christ

Many people in UK congregations have been 'disconnected' and 'reconnected'. A survey for church leaders will look at this, while people who have 'reconnected' can tell their story. See:

http://connect4life.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=105&Itemid=116

This post on EvangelismUK is for wide circulation to church leaders.

Survey on care and church growth

Church Urban Fund and Christian Research found 28% of churches with care initiatives saw church growth even though that was not the specific intention: http://www.cuf.org.uk/research/church-growth

Faith in research - 9th May

An Anglican gathering of researchers looking at church and mission will meet in London: http://www.freshexpressions.org.uk/training/events/faithinresearch12

Steve Hollinghurst on Richard Dawkins research

Steve Hollinghurst makes some comments: http://sheffieldcentreresearch.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/what-does-the-dawkins-ipsosmori-poll-14th-feb-2012-tell-us-about-uk-christianity/

Richard Dawkins research on social attitudes 15/02/12

This is the link to research of Christian social attitudes just published and making the news: http://c3414097.r97.cf0.rackcdn.com/IpsosMORI_RDFRS-UK_Survey_Topline_15-02-2012.pdf

Sheffield Research Centre start blog

A new blog site about mission, evangelism and fresh expressions research has been launched by the Sheffield Centre - it will include Research Bulletins and comment area: http://sheffieldcentreresearch.wordpress.com/

Research of religious trends

Download BSA28_12Religion

This is a pdf download of research on religious trends from the National Centre for Social Research which you may see quoted.

Australian research informs UK evangelism

A research project in Australia has revealed interesting comments like 1 in 2 do not identify with religion and 12 % say they are spiritual but not religious, see: http://www.olivetreemedia.com.au/resources/Olive%20Tree%20Media/Apologetics%20Series/Reseach%20Summary-web.pdf

ReJesus / Christmas + 16-25 year olds rank Jesus 123rd

The reJesus website has a new blog post about Christmas, including a link to research among 16-25 year olds suggesting Jesus is only ranked 123rd of people most admired:  http://www.rejesus.co.uk/blog/post/the_jesus_silly_season 

 

 

 

 

Tomorrow's evangelism research bulletin

The second (6 month) bulletin from The Sheffield Centre / researcher Steve Hollinghurst is free from http://www.churcharmy.org.uk/ms/sc/Evangelism/sfc_tomorrows_evangelism.aspx

Latest Research Bulletin from Sheffield Centre

This mission research bulletin is available from the Church Army Sheffield Centre website at http://www.encountersontheedge.org.uk/further-publications/research-bulletin-no-08-summer-2011.html

'Big Blether' about reaching out in Scotland

The Mission and Discipleship Council of the Church of Scotland have launched a new website to engage their churches in discussing worship, witness and discipleship, see: http://bigblether.net/

CofE Cathedral attandance figures increased 'significantly'.

The Church of England have produced detailed figures for 2010 about Cathedrals and 'significant' increase in use and attandance, see http://www.churchofengland.org/media/1243690/cathedralattendances2000to2010.pdf

'Fear and Hope' research in British society

The Christian Research bulletin points us to a major survey about British society: http://www.fearandhope.org.uk/executive-summary/

Christian Research and the Census questions

CR have posted an article about the Census questions at: http://www.christian-research.org/christian-research-blog/uk-census-2011-the-religion-question.html

Christian Research 'Trends' archive now online

Past copies of 'Religious Trends' can now be seen via http://www.christian-research.org/religious-trends.html

Mission research paper: 'Levels of engagement'

The Sheffield Centre latest Research Bulletin is on 'Levels of engagement' in mission and evangelisation, see http://www.churcharmy.org.uk/ms/sc/sfc_researchbulletin.aspx 

Evangelicals and mission / evangelism

A major research project has been written up and published by the Evangelical Alliance. It includes attitudes and practice of mission and evangelism: http://www.eauk.org/snapshot/

Church 72 million hours and £1b contribution to Community

Church Insight survey of 284 churches if projected across the UK gives statistics about church voluntarily contribution to wider community: http://www.churchinsight.com/Groups/149033/ChurchandCommunity.aspx

Mission Shaped thinking in a larger church

The latest Encounters on the Edge booklet from the Sheffield Centre explores this topic from Christ Church in Bridlington: http://www.encountersontheedge.org.uk/

UK church attendance no longer in decline

I missed the blog article from Benita Hewitt from Christian Research which was also picked up in the Guardian and Telegraph: http://churchmousepublishing.blogspot.com/2010/09/christian-research-church-attendance-in.html 

Latest Sheffield Centre research bulletin

'So far, but no further' is the title of the latest research bulletin with various contributions about Fresh Expressions from the Sheffield Centre: http://www.churcharmy.org.uk/ms/sc/sfc_researchbulletin.aspx

Foundations for Mission CTBI book and ppt

Foundations for Mission is a study theme and research project headed by Anne Richards for Edinburgh 2010 looking at language, theology and praxis in UK and Ireland: http://www.spiritualjourneys.org.uk/look/index.php

Faith Journeys website fully up and running

The website for the major initiative to collate and consider 'faith journeys' is now ready with resources to submit and see stories at: http://www.faith-journeys.com/