Debunking 3 myths about the origins of Christmas
Ryan Burton King
Date posted: 7 Dec 2024
Christmas. 'It's the most wonderful time of the year,' Andy Williams croons. Or, as a cast of characters from Jim Henson's Creature Shop sang in The Muppet Christmas Carol, it is 'the summer of the soul in December'.
But for others, it is a season of woe, an opportunity to blow a cold frost wind over the festivities with assorted dubious claims, doubtless well-intentioned but badly thought through and poorly communicated.
Future servants meet up
Ryan Burton King
Date posted: 1 Jun 2014
From April 4–6 a group of around 70
young people met for a weekend on the site
of All Nations Christian College
in
Hertfordshire to consider ways of getting
involved in evangelism and mission.
This annual event of the Grace Baptist
Churches
in
South East England
for
Christians aged 15-25, celebrated its tenth
anniversary with moving times of worship,
helpful workshops, excellent Bible teaching,
and lots of opportunities for fellowship.
Reflecting on betrayal: Ukrainians mark three years of war
On 24 February 2025, thousands of Ukrainians and their families and friends crowded into London’s Trafalgar Square for an evening of prayers and protest, speeches and music, marking three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Particular excitement was caused by the appearance of the 'Iron General', the popular former commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhnyi, who took up a new post as ambassador to the United Kingdom last year. But the mood was inescapably sober, and reflected a new sentiment absent from previous gatherings: betrayal.