In this Forum, parishioner and Adult Education Committee co-chair Bill Tompson looks at the formation of the body of writings we now call the New Testament. What do we (think we) know about who wrote these books and when? Who decided which texts were included and why? What of the texts that “didn’t make the cut”? How – and why – does it matter to us today to understand the how the New Testament took shape? Spoiler alert: no matter what Dan Brown tells you, it wasn’t all down to the Emperor Constantine.