Episode Description
In the cold stone churches of fourteenth century England, something was going wrong. The words were still being said, the rituals still performed --- but the living connection between the great story the faith carried and the lives ordinary people were actually living had begun, quietly, to thin. John Wycliffe, Oxford's most formidable theologian, saw it clearly and spent his life saying so. He wanted the plowman to have access to the living thing --- not a translation, not a ceremony, but the thing itself. His question --- who gets to stand between a soul and what it is reaching for --- could not be unasked. Six centuries later, in the gutters of Calcutta, Mother Teresa was living the answer.