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  • Advent into adverts

    Our materialist culture has turned, or perhaps it’s our materialist nature, has turned advent into adverts. Three years ago, on Christmas day in the UK, £1 billion was spent online shopping – on Christmas Day itself Simon PonsonbyClick to TweetFrom the book “Amazed by Jesus” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • Missing the big news

    It was in December of 1903, that after many attempts, the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, were successful in getting their “flying machine” off the ground and into the air at Kitty Hawk. Thrilled over the accomplishment, they telegraphed this message to their sister Katherine: “We have actually flown 120 feet. Will be home for…