Steph Macleod: Silent Night
Steph Macleod sings silent night - getting ready for Christmas
Read MoreWhy take your children to funerals
fruitful learning opportunities to help kids grasp gospel realities.
Read MoreMillennials want experiences for Christmas
According to the front page of the Times on Monday this week, a new poll of UK adults’ Christmas gift choices reveals that we prefer receiving experiences over physical presents. We would rather have concert tickets, a day at the race track, beauty treatments, sky diving or skills training over the more traditional clothes, books and gadgets. The surge of interest in gifts of “experience”, according to Barclaycard which published the findings, is driven by millennials (roughly those in their 20s and 30s). A third of those questioned said that they were likely to buy an experience...
Read MoreChristmas at Christ Church 2018
This Christmas at Christ Church we're going to discover that there is something so much more to Christmas than all the adverts promise.
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The poor are still with us
Do we “uphold the cause of the poor” (Psalm 82:3)? This week the United Nations published a report by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Its conclusion is that although “The UK is the world’s fifth largest economy [and] contains many areas of immense wealth, 14 million people, a fifth of the population, live in poverty. Four million of these are more than 50% below the poverty line, and 1.5 million are destitute, unable to afford basic essentials.” It claims that many are highly dependent on charities and crisis services...
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