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.
Antisemitism: Never again?
The lad in the middle of the photo accompanying this article is me. The boy on the bicycle to my right is Moti. The boy on my left is Zami.
I last saw them when I was 11 years old after moving house from Stamford Hill in London, still home to a significant Jewish population. Though a brief friendship in the scheme of things, these Jewish boys played an important role in my formation, life and mission as a Christian. Seldom a day has passed since our first meeting that I have not thought of or prayed for Moti and Zami - and Asher, Joshua, Samuel, Yitzahk and many others whose names sadly now escape me.