Category Archives: research

Church Planting Research Report: interim results released

The Nova Research Centre has been an active partner in an important new research initiative that is likely to prove of enormous benefit to the missional church planting community in Europe. Nova’s Director, Darrell Jackson, has been working with lead … Continue reading

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HOPE II blog and twitter stream

We’ve just finished our interim Report on Missional Church Planting in Europe, ready for its first outing next week in Budapest – just under 90 pages with the details of 330 or so church planters in Europe drawn from the … Continue reading

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Europe for Brazilians

I’m here in Brazil for the 6th meeting of the Lausanne International Researchers’ Conference. My paper today looks at secularisation in Europe, drawing on data that my colleague, Jim Memory, and I have been collating and analysing from the 2008 … Continue reading

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The British public on Benedict's social teaching

Theos reports today on the findings of a ComRes poll of 2,003 British adults in connection with the visit of the Pope. Strikingly, despite popular disapproval about paying for his visit, a majority of the British public was in favour … Continue reading

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Christian Research reverses predictions of numerical decline for UK churches

New data released by Christian Research today suggests that the decline in churchgoing has stabilised and that attendance figures have actually been more or less static for the last five years. This reverses a series of predictions made during the … Continue reading

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