How would you describe your personal beliefs in relation to religion?Progressive, feminist Christian.What made you adopt or retain this identity?I grew up in the Church of Scotland and made a conscious decision to be a Christian in my early teens, and since then tried...
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The Right Reverend Christine Hardman
How would you describe your personal religious faith? A Christian who belongs to the Church of England. Is this a tradition which you were brought up with? What made you decide to either retain or adopt this faith? I wasn’t brought up in the tradition, my family were...
Father Ian Paton
How would you describe your beliefs and identity in relation to religion? I would use words like traditional…orthodox….radical….progressive….liberal…..Epsicopalian. What made you decided to adopt or retain this position? I was born and Anglican and brought up by a not...
Father William Pearsall
How would you describe your personal religious beliefs and identity?I am a Roman Catholic priest, a Jesuit, which means I belong to a religious order within the Catholic Church with its own style of work and training. I am working here in Manchester at the university...
David Pollock
How would you describe yourself in terms of religious identity?I call myself a humanist.It wasn’t a tradition in which I grew up. My parents were not religious. My father had residual Christian beliefs, to the extent that when a brother of mine decided that he was...
Baroness Kathleen Richardson
How would you describe your identity in terms of religion and belief?I am a member of the Methodist Church. I subscribe to most of their theological understanding and I withhold the right to oppose everything they say… I suppose my theology has been homed by my...
Reverend David Robertson
How would you describe your religious or ideological identity?I am a Bible believing Christian. In theological terms I am described as a Calvinist… I am a Scottish Presbyterian, ideologically I would be politically I would be regarded as quite left wing and morally...
Ashley Mortimer
How would you describe your personal religious beliefs and identity?I consider myself a Pagan, which means my beliefs are essentially animistic. I believe that there is a divine spirit in the universe and that it permeates the rest of the universe and that it touches...
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
How easy is it for you to live in accordance with your beliefs? Are there any challenges, and if so, are they social, legal or political in nature?Challenges? Of course…..there are some specific ones. Periodically, challenges are raised against some very, very ancient...
Ian Scott
How would you describe yourself in terms of belief?If it is framed in terms of belief I would have to go for humanist. I was brought up Catholic and I rejected that strongly, and was much more atheist, then became more sceptic, for a time I still felt uncomfortable...
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