Lost Opportunity
NYONE familiar with the prickly subject of religious broadcasting in this denomination-ridden country must have been disposed to welcome a discussion between four differently-labelled clergymen. And indeed the speakers in the first Christian Question-Box were a friendly and lively team, especially on the subject of the Church’s use of mass communication, which is the special interest of several of them-notably Father Agnellus Andrew, of the BBC. Yet at the end of it the listener was left almost wholly in the dark as to just how closely these men from different Christian traditions could get together on the fundamentals of their faith, since nothing fundamental was touched on. The question scarcely rose above the level of ecclesiastical shop. One might have taken them further, if it had been better phrased. It asked whether, when there is such a terrible need for salvation in New Zealand, we should send missionaries overseas. This took just too much for granted. I believe some ‘of the later questions are to go (continued on next page)
deeper, so it was evidently not reluctance on the speakers’ part that kept such questions out of the first programme; but it gave’ the series a poor start.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 885, 20 July 1956, Page 16
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200Lost Opportunity New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 885, 20 July 1956, Page 16
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