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igious training scheme as weekend programme company for the north and midlands abc television has always accepted its particular responsibility to provide suitable religious programmes on sundays acceptance of this responsibility has led to weekly sunday morning services the sunday break independent television s national youth club and the living your life series on sunday evenings these programmes have been conceived as complementary to the work of the church in planning and producing them it soon became clear that the church was not fully using the power of the medium few churchmen understood the workings of television fewer still the exciting opportunities it offered to them to influence people this was the point from which abc television began the planning of the religious training scheme abc approached the main bodies of the church with its proposals and the response left no doubt about its acceptance the archbishop of canterbury i am most interested in the proposal that you are making and regard it as having immensely valuable possibilities i would wish to do everything possible to assist you the archbishop of westminster i fully recognise the wisdom of priests who are to be engaged in tv programmes receiving special training in the techniques to be employed in this medium i welcome your proposals rev dr norman h snaith president of the methodist conference i think that it is a splendid and useful idea and will do good all round the methodist church is happy to co operate rev howard s stanley secretary of the congregational union of england and wales the congregational union of england and wales is more than interested in your project and would wish to help rev ernest a payne general secretary baptist union of great britain and ireland we the baptist union of great britain and ireland have been much interested in the scheme which is being launched by abc television and we welcome all such endeavours whereby this means of communication may be better used for the extension of the kingdom of god the way was clear an interdenominational working committee was set up and the first course opened at abc television s manchester studios on may 7th 1959 three courses will be held each year with twelve members of the clergy on each contained in the pages that follow are the inaugural speeches made at the opening ceremony and photographs of the first course for anglicans which was followed by similar courses for the free churches and roman catholic clergy categories introduction tags archbishop of canterbury archbishop of westminster baptist union congregational union of england and wales introduction methodist conference inaugural ceremony 7th may 1959 1 february 2019 7 may 1959 by abc television s religious training scheme the scene at the inaugural ceremony left to right mr howard thomas managing director abc television the bishop of manchester chairman of the central religious advisory committee dr eric g m fletcher mp deputy chairman associated british picture corporation reverend l g tyler anglican adviser to abc television howard thomas managing director abc television ltd my lord bishop gentlemen this is in many ways an important day in our history it is exactly three years ago on may 5th 1956 since abc began to transmit from the north and since this studio was opened it was from this studio that abc broadcast its first religious service which was a service for the deaf it was in this studio that the first television baptism took place it was conducted by the reverend leonard tyler who is here with us today in fact abc is symbolised by this studio for just as we are a film company which went into television so this is a cinema which as you see became a television studio we are an entertainment organisation yet on sundays one third of our programmes are religious or informational today we take another step forward the short ceremony you are about to see is to inaugurate a training scheme for men of the church who in their wisdom have decided to use to the full the power of television and to co operate with us in this first scheme of its kind in the whole world eric g m fletcher lld mp deputy chairman associated british picture corporation and abc television my lord bishop gentlemen as mr howard thomas has said this is a very important occasion in the history of the company i represent abc television since we were first appointed by the independent television authority as weekend programme contractors for the north of england and the midlands we have always been very conscious of our responsibility for providing on sundays a series of religious programmes that would make a real contribution to the spiritual and cultural needs of the nation in pursuance of this objective we have devoted much time and thought not only to our sunday morning services but to a series of religious programmes including the living your life series and the sunday break which we introduced and which i am happy to say is attracting an increasingly large audience we have recently started a new series about the bible called the least read best seller and i am also able to announce today that we are contemplating making a series of 39 documentary dramatised episodes to be filmed in the holy land of well known events from the old testament and from the new testament taken on the sites where those events occurred today as mr howard thomas has said we carry this policy a stage further it is just three years since we opened in this studio and today we are very happy to inaugurate this which is the first of a series of three courses of training for the clergy this weekend is for members of the anglican confession in a few weeks time there will be a course for nonconformist ministers to be followed by one for selected roman catholic clergy we intend to spare no expense in trying to expand to the maximum the size of the audience who view our religious programmes method of selection the selection of those taking part in these three courses has been left to the respective church authorities themselves i am however personally grateful to the archbishop of canterbury for responding to my suggestion made to him a few months ago that the anglican contingent should include at least one or two bishops the archbishop readily fell in with that suggestion this indicates that the church shares our view that the christian message on television should be conveyed with the maximum weight of authority those who attend these training courses will we hope use their expertise not only in our own religious programmes but also in those of the bbc and of other programme companies operating under the ita there was a time in the early days of television and certainly in the early days of independent television when the church was inclined to look with a rather lukewarm or hesitant eye at our operations i do not think it was unnatural that at first the churches were a little alarmed at the threat to church going which they thought was implied by a large degree of religious programmes on sundays i think we should all recognise with gratitude that that phase has passed and we now enjoy the fullest co operation from all denominations the churches are now alive to the vast evangelising possibilities of television and ready to make the fullest use of this great new technical invention in furthering the cause of christianity the tradition of the church in using different techniques after all it is in accordance with the oldest traditions of the church to make use of every available method to win souls for christ it was st paul who gave the lead in this respect he used all the resources of the pax romana you will recall the well known passage in the first letter to the corinthians which he concludes with the famous remark i am become all things to all men in order that by all means i might save some 1 corinthians 9 22 that is the keynote of our approach to this training scheme to enable the clergy to make the fullest use of the advantages of this new technique of television the medieval church the example set by st paul was followed by the early church the medieval church did not hesitate to make the fullest use of every technical device then available to inspire to teach and to spread the christian message that is why it is throughout the middle ages we have all that lovely ritual the symbolism of processions all that wealth of pageantry the vivid colourful paintings on church walls all these and many another technique were used for the purpose of spreading the christian doctrine the genius of artists sculptors masons and craftsmen were all harnessed to the cause printing in the reformation then at the reformation a great change occurred a great technical change we are inclined to think of the reformation primarily as having been a change in doctrine but it was much more than that the reformation was the result of and was conditioned by a great technical change perhaps the greatest technical change that has ever occurred in the cultural life of this country namely the introduction of printing the introduction of printing enabled the people of this country to read the bible in the vernacular in their own tongue and it was that technical revolution that produced the reformation and it took the churches more than one generation to adapt themselves to that great new technical change television compared with printing now we have another great technical change television and the analogy between television and printing is this they are both essentially methods of communication a means of communicating knowledge and ideas television like printing and like every other technical device can be used for good purposes or for bad purposes it is because the potentialities of television are so great as compared with the influence of the press and literature and printing that the state exercises a much greater degree of control and supervision over television than it has over literature or the press therefore i believe that the church is in line with its historic function in making full use of the immense opportunities that television provides of reaching hundreds and thousands indeed millions of persons in this country who for one reason or another do not go to church at all either because they are only nominal christians or because they are unbelievers or because they are indifferent to religion or for some other reason at the same time as television provides the church with this great new opportunity it also presents the clergy or some of them as it does politicians or some of them with the necessity of mastering the mysteries of this new technique television as a unifying effect on family life there are two observations that i want to make with regard to the use of television in connection with religion the first is this it is sometimes said that listening to or viewing religious services on television viewing religious programmes is no substitute for going to church it is quite natural that every parson should wish to increase the size of his congregation and i would be the last to minimize the importance of corporate worship but television enables you to appeal to millions of people who for one reason or another do not go to church or if they do only do so very occasionally though you have an audience which is measured in millions it is not a mass audience it is an audience composed of a very large number of small groups perhaps two or three people generally members of the same family meeting in the intimacy of their own home by their own fireside whatever may be thought about television in general on the asset side of television as a whole we must recognise i think that it tends to cement the unity of the family whether it is producing programmes for entertainment or instruction or any other kind of programmes it caters for the family as a unit and the family is the basis of christian society in this respect television is unlike some other pastimes one finds that families who watch religious programmes on television tend to talk about them and discuss them afterwards in the natural intimate conditions of family life which is itself a great advantage therefore for my part i do not entirely disparage those who are sometimes called television christians i believe that very often those watching a religious service on television or some other religious programme do partake in a real spiritual experience which if i may say so may perhaps give some new significance to the words in st matthew s gospel where two or three are gathered together in my name there am i in the midst of them st matthew 18 20 duty to stress on tv underlying unities of christianity the second observation i want to make and to which i personally and my company attach importance is this there is this difference between religious services and religious programmes on television and all other religious occasions those of you here today candidates on this first course ordained ministers of the church of england have a canonical duty to teach christianity according to the doctrine of the church of england we as a programme company inaugurating religious programmes with the approval of the independent television authority have a statutory duty to provide religious programmes indifferently for anglicans for roman catholics and for nonconformists it follows that on television we have a special duty to stress the underlying unities of the christian faith when people go to church they normally choose the church of their own communion but on television we find over and over again that people view i have no doubt with profit and enjoyment one week an anglican service another week a roman catholic service and another week a nonconformist service and enjoy them all this may well produce quite a significant change in the relationship between the churches in this and the next generation i say that for two reasons television is tending to make people far more tolerant of other people s opinions that is equally true in religion as it is in politics the various discussion programmes on television are also tending to produce a population which for the first time is accustomed to see the other point of view i am sure it is true in politics that there is less emphasis on partisanship now than there was a generation ago when most people heard or read only one side of a question television is leading people to realise that on most if not all questions there are at least two points of view in the second place everybody with any experience of television will tell you that this medium places a great premium on sincerity it brings the person speaking much closer to his audience it helps to reveal truth and expose falsehood in this context there is a passage in ephesians which if i may venture to quote it is not without relevance all things that are reproved are made manifest with the light for whatsoever doth make manifest is light ephesians 5 13 the po...