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The Times newspaper of London has a weekly "Credo" column, where different religious thinkers publish essays on a timely topic. On Saturday 11th April 2026, the Credo column was entitled "Can we take Tyndale's influence for granted?". It was written by Revd Michael Coren, who is an Anglican priest and media commentator in Canada. The article is a very good summary of the story of Tyndale and his impact upon our language and he also argues that this had an impact on Puritan thought and politics.
The article is available (behind a paywall) via the link below.
Cambridge University Library has scanned a copy of Tyndale's 1534 Revised New Testament which is now available to view online. This was Tyndale's revision of the 1526 New Testament. Unlike the 1526 edition, the 1534 edition includes woodcuts, cross-references, marginal notes and Old Testament lectionary readings.
It was published in Antwerp in 2016. When Cambridge University Library celebrated its 600th anniversary in 2016 and included this item as one of the jewels of its collection online in an exhibition called "Lines of Thought: Discoveries that changed the world". Some of these are available to download on an iPad.
You can access Tyndale's New Testament by clicking on the link below.
On Saturday 21st March, the Tyndale Society was represented at the Tyndale House World of the Bible event in Ealing, West London. Tyndale House is an evangelical, education centre based in Cambridge, which specialises in supporting biblical research. There were talks on the trustworthiness of the New Testament and a special focus on William Tyndale, with a display of reprints and pages from early English Bibles. We also gained some new members at this event.
On 19th March 2026, five members of the Tyndale Society had a meal and planning meeting in the Tudor restaurant of the White Hart pub in St Albans. This was followed by a talk at St Albans Abbey about Sir Thomas More by author Joanne Paul. Sir Thomas More had an intense theological opposition to William Tyndale, writing his "Dialogue" in 1529 that condemned Tyndale's English New Testament as heretical and full of errors. Tyndale countered this in "An Answer unto Sir Thomas More's Dialogue" in 1531, which defended his work. For a copy of Joanne's book click on the link below.
The Tyndale Society USA’s 3rd Annual Conference was held on March 14, 2026 at the Mary Dod Brown Memorial Chapel, at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. It focused on Tyndale’s 1526 New Testament and Reformation themes. The speakers were:
- Dr. Marilyn Button, who presented a biographical overview of William Tyndale;
- Rev. Dr. Richard A. Whitesel, who delivered the keynote speech on the legacy of Martin Luther and
- Hon. Thomas E. Martin Jr., who spoke on the “Affair of the Sausages” using Zwingli’s life to explore issues of Christian liberty. (To read a transcript of his talk, click below.)
Musical interludes were presented by Aaron Bryant, Christopher Kraus and vocalist Robert Joubert. For a fuller report of the conference, click on the link below.
A report of the event appeared in the West Chester Daily News: