I managed to catch the second episode of this four part series tonight - and although it was on BBC 4 I was still able to understand it OK!
It was refreshing to hear the development of family life that Protestantism served as a catalyst for - the programme interestingly traced how it's emphasis on individual conscience served both liberal and conservative ends of the Protestant spectrum. I was glad that all these bases were covered for a change.
I'm no theologian but after watching it I felt glad to be part of this tradition. There has been too much cheap TV recently focussing on the wackier, extreme, unreasonable elements of the denomination so this was a welcome change.
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I wish there was a balanced documentary on Protestants over here. There's plenty of documentaries on Evangelicals but they are always equated either with Bush & the Republican Right, either with God TV style carrying on!
Yep that's usually the case over here as well. This was quite an academic programme for a change.
Interesting programme on Channel 4 the same night - looking at how British muslims who convert to Christianity are often in severe danger of reprisals. Part of the programme looked at missionary organisations doing covert evangelism to target muslims - must admit that they portrayed the work of the mission orgs as pretty sinister!!
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