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In answer to the question where did the Magi come from, there is very little to help us in the text of Scripture itself. All Matthew says, important as it is, is “wise men from the east came“. (Matthew 2:1) At the time of Christ’s birth, the term east meant Media, Persia, Assyria and Babylonia;…
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My latest interviewee is Peter Mead and, as ever, it was refreshing and inspiring to chat with him about preaching. You can find other interviews in this series here and here
I have often been asked to share, step by step, how I go about preparing to preach and thought now would be a good time to do something about it. I am just beginning to prepare a new series of sermons and so I thought I would walk you through how I am going about…
Behind the high altar of St Peter’s Cathedral in Cologne is what is reputed to be the largest reliquary, or container of religious relics, in the western world, and inside are the supposed remains of the Magi whose story is told in Matthew 2. The story goes that when the remains of the men were…
