ABSTRACT
This chapter considers attempts that have been made to communicate the Christian faith in the twentieth century in England as examples of contemporary religious communication and its problems. In this way, it is hoped to cast light on religious communication in general by examining the attempts at communication by the Christian faith in a secular age. The social climate is less religious, belief is harder, indifference has increased; and therefore people are less ready to respond to the communicative activities of the churches and so to attend regularly for worship, as indeed they gather together publicly less often for any social purpose. Fewer worshippers than in the past in each place causes loss of morale and public confidence in the church; fewer ministers are appointed, whose work is more thinly stretched across congregations and thus less effective; inadequate giving makes institutional religion harder to sustain. Religious Education in schools used to aim at evangelism and nurture.
