Melvin Tinker (27 June 1955 – 23 November 2021) was an English evangelical Anglican clergyman. He was senior minister of

St John's Church, Newland St John's Church, Newland, also known simply as St John Newland, is an Anglican evangelical church located in the parish of Newland in the city of Kingston upon Hull, England. History The church was built by Avison Terry, a leading evang ...

from 1994 to 2020, when he left the Church of England. Tinker was born on 27 June 1955 in

Mansfield Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area (followed by Sutton-in-Ashfield). It gained the Royal Charter of a market tow ...

, Nottinghamshire. He later attended Hull University and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He was one of the founding members of Reform. Tinker wrote 19 books, including several on the relationship between Christianity and culture, such as ''Alien Nation: The Growing Isolation of the Church from today's Culture'' ( Christian Focus Publications, 2002) and ''That Hideous Strength: How the West was lost'' (

Evangelical Press Evangelical Press (also known as 'EP Books') is a small Christian not-for-profit publisher of books, including two commentary series and a range of non-fiction aimed at the ordinary reader. Until 2015 it was based in Darlington in the United King ...

, 2018), as well as producing a large number of other written articles for various Christian publications and websites. He died from pancreatic cancer on 23 November 2021, at the age of 66.

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1955 births 2021 deaths Evangelical Anglican clergy Alumni of the University of Hull Alumni of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford People from Mansfeld Deaths from pancreatic cancer {{UK-Anglican-clergy-stub