Melvin Tinker (27 June 1955 – 23 November 2021) was an English evangelical Anglican clergyman. He was senior minister of St John's Church, Newland from 1994 to 2020, when he left the

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. Tinker was born on 27 June 1955 in Mansfield,

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. He later attended

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and

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. He was one of the founding members of

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. 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'' (

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, 2002) and ''That Hideous Strength: How the West was lost'' ( Evangelical Press, 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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