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,...
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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,...
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...
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...
Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
How would you describe your identity and beliefs in relation to religion?An important part of my identity is that I am a Quaker, a member of the Religious Society of Friends. I think that has been very important throughout my career, because they encourage women to be...
Baroness Haleh Afshar
How would you describe your religious or ideological identity?I am a Muslim, For my primary schooling I went to a school run by Catholics nuns, then went to a Protestant school and then I to a university that was fundamentally atheist. I found that people...
The Reverend Dr Will Adam
How would you describe your religious or ideological identity?I am a baptised Orthodox Christian priest.Was that the tradition you grew up with, what made you decide to retain or adopt it?It is something I grew I up with, I never really thought about ditching it, but...
Professor Norman Doe
How would you describe your religious or ideological identity?Each year I promise myself… at Easter, in Holy Week… to address this sort of question. But I never get around to it. I believe in God - I am a Christian; I receive Holy Communion every Sunday; and I play...
Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell
Do public authorities respect Human Rights?As a university we accept speakers with a radical view, but we draw the line at the point of incitement to hatred or violence or when they can be in breach of the laws of the land.Are agnostics proportionately represented in...
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