Once a year, in January, I sit around a table with an eclectic group that includes Chris Bryant, the Labour MP, Anna Sapir Abulafia, professor of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions at Oxford University, and a smattering of religious publishers. The setting is a modest room at Oxford University, the occasion is the meeting of the External Advisory Board for the Faculty of Theology and Religion.
And every year our group puzzles over the same issue: how can we get more young people to study theology and religion at undergraduate and graduate levels?
