Religious Teaching In Broadcasting

The other day I heard two men of definite highbrow quality discussing the book in which Mr. R. S. Lambert describes his experiences with the British Broadcasting Corporation.

He tells how, at the interview prior to his appointment, he was asked in effect by Sir John Reith to state whether he held the teaching of Christ to be of fundamental importance. To these two men this seemed a ridiculous and even impertinent question. It, they felt, had nothing to do with the B.B.C.; it was as fatuous as the once suggested proposal to introduce some reference to Almighty God into the Covenant of the League of Nations. Contemporary life has, as Studdert Kennedy put it, left Jesus at the street corner in the rain.

And, consequently, life has been all mist with no wind of the Spirit. And, even in the ranks of Christians, people have either enshrined Christ in a creed or have kept Him very definitely out of the inner circles of their life, and held His Truth at arms’ length in any discussion of political or economic adjustment; or they have allowed the wind of agnosticism to blow their flame of faith flat. The total result has been a wild, darkened, blinded rush over a precipice edge.