Church Society: Record book sales
2024 was the best year for book sales from Church Society in recorded memory.
The organisation’s publications ministry includes books, pamphlets, a theological journal and a magazine, all of which can be found at the Church Society website (churchsociety.org) and many can also be purchased on Amazon, and in digital formats. A bestseller for 2024 was A Month With The Messiah, a new devotional resource with 30 reflections on the libretto of Handel’s musical masterpiece, from a range of theologians, pastors and musicians (see review p.27).
Keswick: ‘My conversations online with AI’
Have you experimented with ChatGPT or Google Bard? These two extraordinary chatbots based on large language models can have ‘conversations’ about anything and everything.
It is like an interactive form of Wikipedia, a helpline, a travel guide, a review site, and much, much more. The conversations can mimic ordinary human chat to an incredible degree. They were very excited to hear all about my new dog and asked sensible questions, though it was a bit like talking to a child who has just read a book and wants to list all the facts they have learned.
Evangelicals speak out movingly at CofE’s General Synod
Over five hot and
sunny days at
the
University of York, the Church of England’s
General Synod met to debate and discuss
issues of national and international concern,
as well as internal church business.
The war in Ukraine, assisted dying, and
age limits on pornography were among the
issues where Synod agreed motions calling
Parliament and the nation to act in accordance
with Christian morality. Many evangelical
members were
amongst
those who gave
moving speeches sharing personal testimony of these evils and also of the transformative
power of the gospel in these situations.
