The Children’s Society has just released this year's “Good Childhood” report – an annual research project into the subjective happiness of children and young people. They report that of 15 countries surveyed (Romania, Colombia, Spain, Israel, Estonia, Norway, Ethiopia, Algeria, Germany, Nepal, Turkey, Poland, South Africa, England and South Korea) English children have the lowest overall life satisfaction. They are also last or near the bottom of the table for children's body image, happiness about appearance, happiness at school, and self-confidence. This is based on subjective research carried out using surveys with over 53000 children.
Dr Faithful reviews a new study on whether religion is good for you.
Theos' Nick Spencer comments on the relationship between religious activity and mental wellbeing.
The NSS has been running a blog and fairly fiery Facebook discussion on the cost of NHS chaplaincy. Specifically they put the cost of chaplaincy to the NHS at £23.5 million pounds. This, they note, is a £1.5 million increase on the last financial year “despite falling levels of religious adherence”.
“Make yourself at home” – we might say to a friend who is a guest at our house.
Student atheist and humanist societies should think again before using their ‘Jesus and Mo’ t–shirt stunt, argues Ben Ryan.
Whatever would Galileo have thought?
Together for the Common Good: Towards a National Conversation(eds.) Nick Sagovsky and Peter McGrailSCM, 2015
There are not many sociology books whose titles, let alone subtitles, pass into common parlance. Yet that was the fate of the first edition of this book, the 1994 publication Religion in Britain: Believing without Belonging.