Covid Inquiry, BBC Bias, and Religious Education
What lessons are there to learn from the Covid-19 inquiry? How can bias in the media help us in church ministry? Is the UK becoming more secular?
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In this episode, Phil Topham (Executive Director), Adrian Reynolds (Associate National Director), and John Stevens (National Director), discuss stories in the news from the past few weeks.
00:00 - FIEC Leaders' Conference
07:32 - Lessons from the Covid-19 inquiry
19:02 - BBC bias, media trust, and corporate responsibility
27:56 - Religious education in Northern Ireland
34:35 - An Ashes winter
Show notes
- FIEC Leaders' Conference 2026 (fiec.org.uk)
- The Street Preacher’s Charter (christian.org.uk)
- Rising Lights 2026 (fiec.org.uk)
- Journeys 2026 (fiec.org.uk)
- COVID-19 report goes a long way to answering inquiry's critics (news.sky.com)
- What to Know About the Turmoil at the BBC (nytimes.com)
- Supreme Court rules Christian-focused RE taught in NI schools is unlawful (bbc.co.uk)
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