Bishops, clergy and lay members of the General Synod will vote on whether to demand that the state broadcaster explain why its coverage of Christianity on television has declined so steeply in recent years.
Output has fallen from 177 hours of religious programming on BBC television in 1987-88 to 155 hours in 2007-08, while the number of general programmes has doubled.
Good to see that a church is not just taking secularisation lying down. If the Beeb is quietly discriminating against christianity, then General Synod should call it to account. The alternative is keeping quiet, and then BBC management just assumes that nobody cares.
Secular humanists protest and lobby to impose their beliefs on society – why shouldn’t we protest when our beliefs are denigrated?