Despite the sceptics, there is real truth in the story of Christmas
“There are enough question marks over the Christmas story for dogmatic sceptics to have a field day at this time of year, but the core historical realities are not easily swept away…”
– John Dickson writes in The Sydney Morning Herald.
Paternoster sold to Koorong
“Press Release: Carlisle December 21st 2009
The Board of Trustees and Senior Management of leading Carlisle-based Christian Charity, IBS-STL UK, formerly known as STL are pleased to announce the sale of two of its three trading divisions: Authentic Media and STL Distribution…
Authentic Book Publishing and 8 Wesley Owen Stores (Bath Birmingham, Bristol, Bromley, Coleraine, Derby, Glasgow and York ) have been sold to Koorong, which is owned by the Bootes family. Based in Sydney, Koorong has 18 stores operating successfully throughout Australia. It has purchased all of the Authentic and Paternoster intellectual property and author contracts, the freehold properties in Glasgow and York, the Wesley Owen trading name, and the domain name, wesleyowen.com. They plan to continue to operate from the Milton Keynes area.”
– from the Church Times blog. (Image: STL Distribution)
Archbishop Peter Jensen’s Christmas message 2009
In his 2009 Christmas message, Archbishop Peter Jensen begins by speaking about leadership.
The full text is available at SydneyAnglicans.net (pdf) – or watch it here. (Here’s the SMH’s report.)
What we believe
The message at the heart of Christianity is really quite simple…