
Is The Bible Still Relevant Today?
Four hundred years after the King James Bible's publication, host Nicky Campbell brings a panel to Bury Grammar School Boys to argue whether the book still matters. The Right Reverend Michael Nazir Ali, former Bishop of Rochester, defends it as a moral and spiritual guide still shaping individuals and communities. Richard Dawkins presses the opposite case, questioning its historical accuracy and its claim on a secular society. Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner speaks from Reform Jewish tradition about the text as a living source of ethics, while Bible scholar Francesca Stavrakopoulou, who fronted the BBC's The Bible's Buried Secrets, brings archaeological and historical context to questions of authorship and origin. The format is straight debate: Campbell moderates, the audience and panel trade positions on morality, social justice, and interpretation, and no side gets the last word. What emerges is less a verdict than a map of where believers, skeptics, and scholars actually disagree.