DIRECTS RELIGIOUS BROADCASTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14572, 16 January 1948, Page 4

DIRECTS RELIGIOUS BROADCASTS

REV. FRANCIS H. HOUSE

NEW APPOINTMENT MADE BY BBC

The BBC's new Director of Religious Broadcasting, the Rev. Francis H. House, M.A., recently took up his new duties at Broadcasting House, London. The post is one which carries high responsibilities for, as the Archbishop of Yoik pointed out in an article ious broadcasting in the BBU *eai Book for 1946, "no agency does more to spread extensively the knowledge of God to the world at large. Religious broadcasting, at nisi confined to Sundays, is now heard on every day of the week, and takes the form, not only of Services of many kinds, but talks on religious subjects, and plays such as Dorothy Savers' great sequence on the nie of Christ, "The Man Born to be K in g-" • ■■ i; rt The Archbishop considers - religious broadcasting to have three special purposes. Firstly, it enables many people who cannot attend corporate worship to join in it at home, in hospital, or wherever else they may be. Secondly, it aims at helping regular churchgoers to improve their own worship by being given the opportunity to hear great preachers or noble sacred music. Most important of all, in the Archbishop's view, is the use oi religious broadcasting as a great evangelistic medium through which millions who stand apart from all our churches are reached. The Rev. House, an Abbott Scholar of Wadham College, Oxford, is well fitted to carry out these high ims - He was ordained in 1935 and has worked in both London and the North of England. From 1937 to 1940 he was Assistant General Secretary of the World Student Christian Federation, working principally in the Balkans. This organisation recalled him in 1944, when he was sent to Athens, whilst for the past year he has been in Geneva, organising the World Conference of Christian Youth, which was held in Oslo last August , ,