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Conversations for believers in the wilderness on a journey to the good land.
Conversations that clarify and inform with glorifying God as our ultimate goal.
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119 Henry IIIV, Ann Boleyn & the English Bible – Peter Osborne
Five hundred years ago, a forbidden book, a defiant queen, and a king’s desire collided to change the course of history and put the Bible into the hands of ordinary English speakers for the first time. In this episode of Wilderness Conversations, Peter Osborne unravels the extraordinary true story behind the 1526 English New Testament: how William Tyndale risked everything to translate Scripture from Greek, how Anne Boleyn, a continental-educated Reformation sympathiser branded “a Lutheran” by foreign ambassadors strategically influenced Henry VIII with Tyndale’s own writings, and how their combined legacies broke the Catholic Church’s monopoly on biblical interpretation. Both Anne and Tyndale were executed in 1536, yet just three years later, Henry decreed that an English Bible built on Tyndale’s translation be chained to every church pulpit in England. This is a tale of forbidden texts, political intrigue, and the printing press as a divine weapon - a story that asks: what would our faith look like today if the English Bible had remained illegal?
16 Sept 2026
118 Pt. 2 Held In His Hands – Martha Sales
From gunshots in the Congo to a refugee camp in Kenya's scorching north - this episode of WildernessConversations takes us on a raw, unforgettable journey. Martha Sales, writing under the pseudonym Anna Tikva brings the story to life in Held in His Hands. We join Atembo and Kiza, the real men behind this latest novel, as they recount fleeing rebel soldiers, escaping government military camps, and crossing borders with nothing but the clothes on their backs. In the most confrounting of situations, they managed quiet moments of deep reflection, these two men share how a small, Bible based community in the Kakuma refugee camp changed everything not through miracles or spectacle, but through radical, unmistakable love. This is a story of survival, faith, and a hope that shines from them.
9 Sept 2026
118 Pt. 1 Held In His Hands – Martha Sales
From gunshots in the Congo to a refugee camp in Kenya's scorching north - this episode of WildernessConversations takes us on a raw, unforgettable journey. Martha Sales, writing under the pseudonym Anna Tikva brings the story to life in Held in His Hands. We join Atembo and Kiza, the real men behind this latest novel, as they recount fleeing rebel soldiers, escaping government military camps, and crossing borders with nothing but the clothes on their backs. In the most confrounting of situations, they managed quiet moments of deep reflection, these two men share how a small, Bible based community in the Kakuma refugee camp changed everything not through miracles or spectacle, but through radical, unmistakable love. This is a story of survival, faith, and a hope that shines from them.
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