The Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life (CORAB) was convened in 2013 by The Woolf Institute.
They were diverse in terms of age, gender, ethnicity and occupation, and in their religious, philosophical and political outlooks.
There were six weekend meetings with visiting speakers, and public hearings were arranged in Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Leicester and London.
[1] There was a special issue of the online magazine Public Spirit and a debate about the consultation in the House of Lords.
Sometimes, the notes recalled, their meanings overlap and converge; sometimes they stand in mutual suspicion or hostility towards each other; sometimes there is synergy between them and a resulting synthesis.