Events
Beaconsfield United Reformed Church is holding two special breakfast meetings in co-operation with the Tyndale Society on Saturday mornings in April, to mark the 500th anniversary of the first modern translation of the New Testament into English. A full cooked breakfast will be served at 8:30 a.m. and will be followed by a talk from 9 a.m.
All are welcome. To book a place, please contact
The two Saturday breakfast meetings are on:
Saturday 11th April
A talk by Brian Edwards (author of William Tyndale and the English Bible)
Saturday 18th April
A talk by Neil Rees (Tyndale Society)
Beaconsfield URC is located at Aylesbury End, Beaconsfield, Bucks, HP9 1LW.
See their website for further details, including the church diary.
Candler’s Pitts Theology Library in Atlanta, Georgia, USA is set to host its annual Morgan Forum on Thursday, April 2, 2026. Each year, The Morgan Forum seeks to engage the public in better understanding the long and complex process that resulted in the Bible's English translation.
This year's keynote speaker is Tyndale Society member, Mark Rankin, Professor of English at James Madison University, who will present on the broad and lasting impacts of William Tyndale's first English translation of the New Testament, as seen five hundred years later.
The forum will take place on campus and via livestream from 3:15-4:15 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST). Advance registration is required for both options. For further details and to register for the event, please click on the relevant link below.
Tyndale House is holding a day conference on Saturday 21st March at the International Presbyterian Church (53 Drayton Green, Ealing, London) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with the proceedings also being available online. The speakers will include Peter Williams (Can we trust the Gospels?), Dirk Jongkind (Can we trust the text of the New Testament?) and Tony Watkins (William Tyndale: The Most Important Englishman in History?)
The nearest tube stations are Drayton Green or West Ealing. Tickets cost £20 to attend in person or £15 online. For further details and a link to book for the conference, please click on the button below.
Joanne Paul, author of a new biography of Thomas More (Penguin, 2025) will be giving a talk on this subject at St Alban's Abbey. The event will begin at 7:30 p.m. and finish at 9 p.m.
Tickets are £15.
To book for this event, please click on the button below.
To order Dr Paul's book from Amazon, click on the button below.