Earlier this year the Bible Society published a research paper called The Quiet Revival, that suggested increasing numbers of people in Britain are attending church. Young people, particularly men, appear to be making up significant numbers of the new churchgoers. Reflecting on this and on his 50 years as an Anglican bishop, Marshall said the evidence does seem to support the claims of a Quiet Revival. Pondering the possible factors for this apparent renewed interest in Christianity, he wrote in Anglican Ink, "What drives this quiet return is not nostalgia for a fading tradition but disillusionment with false promises. Quoting St Catherine of Siena, Marshall said the church should “become again what it was created to be”.