Evangelical Times 40

I note that The Evangelical Times newspaper is now 40 years old. Congratulations! The current edition celebrates with backward glancing articles over the 40 years, mostly of an encouraging kind (the one on 40 years of moral decline clearly isn't). One thing lacking, as far as I can see, is something on the history of the paper itself. The facts appear to be hard to get at.

It began as a separatist paper for evangelicals. The first editor was Peter Masters (now pastor of Met Tab). Michael Buss and David Potter were also involved. The story goes that Dr Lloyd-Jones wasn't too keen at the start but came round. Much has changed since 1967. Editorship passed to the late Robert Horn, during whose time there was sadly a split so that another similar looking (less separatist?) paper began, Evangelicals Now. For many years the editor has been John Benton. Roger Fay is the main man at ET although Prof Edgar Andrews still has an important role. The basic beef between the two papers, I suppose, is how we deal with the contemporaneity question as evangelicals so (as the names suggest) EN comes out as 'hip' and ET as a bit staid. This is a pity as there are bigger issues here.