Iman Irfan Chishti MBE
How would you describe your ideological or religious identity?That is a very big question to start the interview… I was hoping ‘what is your name?’ My ideological or religious identity, in one word, I have to say Muslim…what does it mean to be a Muslim? The label of...
The Reverend Professor Thomas Watkin
How would you describe your personal religious or other beliefs?I’m an Anglican, an ordained priest in the Church in Wales. I am an Anglican, and have remained as such because I appreciate the breadth of belief which it is possible to hold within the Anglican church,...
The Reverend John Chalmers QHC
How would you describe your personal beliefs and identity in relation to religion?I would certainly describe it as Presbyterian and as belonging to the national Church of Scotland. I wasn’t brought up in in the Church of Scotland but I now understand more about what...
Frank Williams
How would you describe your beliefs and identity in terms of religion?I was brought up as an Evangelical Anglican. I went away to a school which was of Anglo-Catholic foundation and through that I found… I went to a church, I go to a church which described itself in...
The Most Reverend Professor Rowan Williams
How would you describe your religious or ideological identity?I would say that I am a Christian, a member of the Church of England within the Catholic tradition of the Anglican faith.I originally grew up as a Presbyterian in Wales and became an Anglican as a teenager,...
Stephen Castle
How would you describe your identity in terms of religion and belief?I would say I am Agnostic.I went to a school in which there was a lot of organised religion, chapel every day… and I think that was a useful cultural background, but it never particularly appealed to...
Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss
How would you describe your identity and beliefs in relation to religion?I am a member of the Church of England. I was born into it and consequently I really never considered not being in it, unlike my children, who were christened, but who are not particularly...
Professor Lord Robert Winston
How would you describe your religious or ideological identity?I’m a Jew, an Orthodox Jew. My family came from Spain in 1490, we were expelled by Ferdinand. And the Safardi branch of the family left for what is now the Middle East, and settled actually in Israel, in...
The Reverend Dr Jason Bray
How would you describe your religious or ideological identity?I’m an Anglican, liberal Anglo-Catholic. Particularly in this part of the world, I would regard the Anglican Church as being basically the Catholic Church and the local manifestation of that. Sorry what...
Professor Linda Woodhead
How would you describe your identity in terms of religion or belief?I am a member of the Church of England. I didn’t choose to be a member of the Church of England. I was baptised as a baby. But I accepted that gift. Yes, I am born and bred in Anglicanism, it is part...
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