The 21st Century Evangelicals Research Programme was a series of panel surveys carried out by the Evangelical Alliance between 2010 and 2016. I was the part time research manager for this work between 2011 and 2016 and responsible for most of the questionnaire design and data analysis. I was well supported by colleagues at the Alliance especially Dave Landrum, Lauren Sibuns, and Lucy Olofinajana. We set up a group of academic advisers who included Matthew Guest, Keith White, Sylvie Collins-Mayo, Mandy Robbins, and William Kay.
A series of popular reports based on the findings of different waves of the surveys were published by the Alliance and can be found and downloaded from this folder.
In 2015 I edited a volume of essays written by members of the academic advisory group and others entitled 21st Century Evangelicals Reflections on Research
The draft text of this is available here
Since my retirement in 2016 I have continued to work on the data we have collected and to write articles for academic journals and other forms of publication online, and to offer presentations at occasional academic conferences and seminars.
My most recent papers from the programme
this is my final paper based on data from the Evangelical Alliance 21st Century Evangelicals Research Programme
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In THEOLOGY AND MINISTRY 7 (2021): 31–54 ISSN 2049-4513
© THE AUTHOR This is an open access article distributed under a CC BY 4.0 licence www.theologyandministry.org
Trans-Atlantic Evangelicalism: Toxic, Fragmented or Redeemable? (2020)
Papers in academic journals covering evangelicals and
- social action,
- health and prayers for healing
- interfaith issues
- Brexit
- racism
can be accessed in this folder
and most are referenced and linked to the online journals where they appear on my publications page
Papers which are under review will be added when they are published.
Several of my published book reviews on various topics around evangelicalism can be found on this page of the site.
Powerpoints from various conference and seminar presentations are available in this folder
I have also released a number of working papers containing detailed data analysis and reflection on topics covered by the various panel surveys on my Primitive Ranter Blog site and which are also available in this folder.
All the data sets and questionnaires (also available here) from the 21st Century Evangelicals programme are available to academics and researchers for secondary analysis under normal license conditions at
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UK Data Archive University of Essex
SN 7786 - Twenty-First Century Evangelicals, 2010-2016: Special Licence Access
https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=7786&type=Data%20catalogue
SN 7787 - Twenty-First Century Evangelicals, 2010-2016
https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=7787&type=Data%20catalogue
And Finally... On a lighter note.
I am the very model of a modern evangelical.
With Apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan
I am the very model of a modern evangelical .
My beliefs and practices may look pretty fundamental
Our worship band is loud though their praise songs are unsingable
I love the word of God but my reading's just occasional
on a smartphone Bible app that my gran finds too technological
My sense of church belonging's increasingly ecumenical
I tend to charismatic and definitely not denominational
I like small groups and all things that simply are relational
My prayers are JUST – a tiny bit liturgical
Outreach to unbelievers is mostly ALPHAbetical
My doctrine of atonement is becoming controversial
and my social justice action's making me look rather radical
around food banks, refugees and the crisis enviromental
though I don't need that with eschatology premillenial
but I often get confused now the world is multi-cultural
Our love's a hot potato when society's so sexual
though I hope Love wins and salvation's universal
though I fear that saying that will make me quite heretical
While the global church is growing at a speed that's just unmeasurable
and the minorities are bringing us fresh insights theological
while Americans are becoming idolatrously political
and embarrassing we Brits with their label “evangelical”
giving meanings to the E -word that sound like hypocritical
So maybe it is time to ditch the Bebbington quadrilateral
to seek to reinstate the GOOD news in our gospel.