Ever wondered where the mod­ern news media star­ted? Ger­many, 1450s — Johann Guten­berg invents mov­able type print­ing and brings out the Bible. Prob­lem with the Bible? You only buy it once.

New trans­la­tions keep presses rolling. They also raise polit­ical prob­lems (like Tyndale’s trans­la­tion in Eng­land). Read­ers can use their Bible to make up their own minds on issues pre­vi­ously inter­preted for them by the Church. Con­tinue read­ing →