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Dr Janina Ramirez presents informative programme on Tyndale’s New Testament, Cranmer’s Book of Common Prayer, and Foxe’s Book of Martyrs that is unashamed of explaining the issues of the day Last night I had my annual TV catch-up and managed to watch BBC Four’s ‘England’s Reformation: Three Books That Changed a Nation,’ presented by Janina

31st October 2017 will be the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation, one of the most important events in European and indeed world history. But will the BBC give this important anniversary due prominence on its home page? It was on 31st October 1517 that Martin Luther famously posted his ’95 Theses’ onto

The author and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg recently commented that schools should be teaching the Bible to children. But the Guardian’s Andrew Brown asked, “Is it too graphic?” Bragg’s comments came in a talk he gave at the Henley Literary Festival on William Tyndale, the man who was martyred in 1536 for translating the Bible into

On Tuesday BBC Two opened this month’s inevitable series of programmes on the Reformation with a very fair and informative history of the Reformation by David Starkey. Entitled “Reformation: Europe’s Holy War,” the programme recounted the early history of the Reformation — beginning with an obscure German friar named Martin Luther who rose to fame

I would like to commend the Telegraph for printing a balanced article, on 22 September, on some new textual criticism to appear in the journal New Testament Studies. I was recently highly critical of an article by the Telegraph’s Religious Affairs Correspondent Olivia Rudgard on the publication, for the first time in English, of a

According to religious editor, No Christians took Bible as history for 250 years after the apostles died. On 23 August 2017 the Telegraph published a story, “‘Don’t take the Bible literally’ says scholar who brought to light earliest Latin analysis of the Gospels” The occasion of this story was the imminent publication, for the first

On 27 July 2017 the Independent Online scored a spectacular journalistic fail, by claiming that “Bible says Canaanites were wiped out by Israelites but scientists just found their descendants living in Lebanon” “Wow!” you say — “this must be a game-changer for Christians who’ve mistakenly believed the Bible was a historical record for twenty centuries!”

“The DUP is a gang of homophobes, creationists and enemies of gender equality. Has the prime minister no shame?” So wrote Guardian commentator Matthew d’Ancona on 12th June 2017, in his article ‘May is the past for Tories now. And Amber Rudd looks like the future.’ The context for this article was the immediate aftermath