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I Was Recently Approached To Be Filmed For Channel 4′s 4Thought
I was recently approached by a media company called Waddell Media in Holywood, nr. Belfast who are Channel 4′s producing a series for Channel 4 called 4Thought. This series consists of short films focused on faith and religion, redolent of Thought for the Day, which feature diverse perspectives on questions around morality, religion and ethics. These short programmes transmit 365 days a year, straight after the Channel 4 News every evening. Each programme is approximately 2 minutes long, and features a single person speaking to camera. Each week, the programmes are linked by an underlying theme, related to news events, important anniversaries or religious ideas.
At the time of writing they are setting up a week of films where seven people will be exploring questions around the role of women within the Christian Church and other religious institutions. The springboard is the debate within the Anglican Church regarding women Bishops, and broadening this question to encompass other Christian Churches and also Islam, Hinduism, Judaism etc. The central question is whether women can be spiritual leaders and whether they can have authority over men in this regard.
I was rather chuffed to have been asked to appear on this but was disappointed to discover that they were looking for someone who was opposed to women leading in churches so I didn’t get to do it. Never mind, as the media company have said that they will contact me in future for possibly filming on other subjects.



























