About 10 years ago, I encountered a bumptious young clergyman who might or might not have been going places. Newly-ordained after a career in advertising, he was just that bit too media savvy, too quick on the uptake, too good-looking and generally too funny to have realistic hopes of ever becoming a bishop. I wrote a little story about a book he had written that made a couple of pars in the old, broadsheet Times. (This column appears in this week's Church of England Newspaper.)
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This is one of the most-watched videos on GodTube, the godly version of YouTube.
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It is both alarming and amusing to watch this video and see how the Dutch evangelical boadcaster EO has removed all references to evidence of evolution, such as fossil dates, from Sir David Attenborough's 2002 documentary The Life of Mammals. I interviewed Sir David this afternoon and have reported the results.
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Just come off the phone from the BBC's The Message, where I was one of the guests discussing The Big Questions, the new programme that will replace The Heaven and Earth Show. This is me in the ISDN studio today at The Times at Wapping. Also discussing this were Aaqil Ahmed, commissioning editor for religion at Channel 4, and Steve Anderson, creative director of Mentorn Television, who are making the new programme and also make Question Time.
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About 10 years ago, I encountered a bumptious young clergyman who might or might not have been going places. Newly-ordained after a career in advertising, he was just that bit too media savvy, too quick on the uptake, too good-looking and generally too funny to have realistic hopes of ever becoming a bishop. I wrote a little story about a book he had written that made a couple of pars in the old, broadsheet Times. (This column appears in this week's Church of England Newspaper.)
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