The Condemned Man Whose Words Became the Cornerstone

In October 1536, William Tyndale was led to a stake outside Brussels, strangled, and burned as a heretic. His crime was translating the Bible into English so that, as he once told a clergyman, "the boy that driveth the plough" might know Scripture better than the clergy themselves. The religious authorities of his day rejected him utterly. They banned his books, hunted him across Europe, and finally executed him at Vilvoorde Castle.…