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The Owl & Badger podcast.
Happy New Year.
In this season of advent here are two resources I want to share with you.
The first is this reflection on Advent.
“Advent is a season of expectation and preparation for the coming of Christ — both his coming as a baby on the first Christmas Day, and also his second coming at the end of time. Advent has some important lessons for us, and here are a few which I have been contemplating.”
The Owl Tree
Read more on Helen’s substack here
And secondly is a short Bible message on Advent 2.0:
Is there another Advent we can be looking forward to? We firmly believe that there is and we hope this podcast will encourage you this Christmas.
You can listen here.
The news that the State took it upon itself to place ‘Baby W’ in the guardianship of his paediatric heart surgeon and cardiologist in order that MRNA infused blood could be used during surgery, whilst shocking, should not come as a surprise. After all, this is Ardern’s New Zealand we are talking about here. As ever, the mainstream press presented this as a ‘win’ against the “anti-vaxxers”, but of course failed to point out that there were plenty of un-jabbed people who came forward to offer their blood to enable the surgery to go ahead.
As with most things COVID, this was not a health decision, but a political one.
I feel for the parents of this baby, who against so much vitriol and opposition, were seeking to do what they believed was right for their child.
Informed consent? That flew out the window in December 2020.
“Perhaps these days are a wake-up call for the West, and indeed for the Western church. The lazy summer days of plenty are over. We need to recognise that autumn is here and winter is coming.”
The Owl Tree
Read the full article here.
The Big Pharma gospel: episode 19 of the Owl & Badger podcast.
There is only one true Gospel and it’s not found in a jab.
“The challenge facing the orthodox Christian church in the west today is to be awake and alert to reality…”
Much of the UK church needs to wake from slumber and William Philip (Minister of the Tron Church in Glasgow) outlines why in this excellent guest post over on The Owl Tree.