Bondi Beach Attack, Putting Christ in Christmas, and Losing the Ashes // In the News

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In:Dependence

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The official FIEC podcast, where you'll hear discussions and interviews on church leadership, theology, and current affairs from the FIEC Ministry Team and guests. The Fellowship of Independent Evangelical (FIEC) is a fellowship of Independent churches with members of the family across England, Scotland and Wales. Our mission is to see those Independent churches working together to reach Britain for Christ. Being part of FIEC links you to a growing number of Independent evangelical churches and there are now more than 50,000 people who are part of churches affiliated to FIEC.

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Bondi Beach Attack, Putting Christ in Christmas, and Losing the Ashes // In the News

In:Dependence

34 minutes 6 seconds

3 weeks ago

Bondi Beach Attack, Putting Christ in Christmas, and Losing the Ashes // In the News

What should we make of the terror attack in Australia? Do we need to put Christ back into Christmas? What can we learn from losing a cricket match?

In this episode of In:Dependence, Phil Topham (FIEC Executive Director), John Stevens (FIEC National Director), and Adrian Reynolds (FIEC Associate National Director) discuss stories in the news and how they relate to church leadership.

Show notes

Visual explainer: how a night of terror unfolded in Bondi (theguardian.com)
Civilisational erasure is real, but Trump is part of the problem (telegraph.co.uk)
Tommy Robinson holds London carol service with around 1,000 punters (metro.co.uk)
The Ashes 2025: What is Bazball? (bbc.co.uk)

About In:Dependence: In:Dependence is FIEC’s official podcast, where you’ll hear conversations on topics for church leaders.

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00:00 - Different experiences at Christmas time

02:35 - Anti-semitic terror attack in Australia

12:15 - Is Europe facing civilisational erasure?

21:17 - Putting Christ back into Christmas

28:54 - Losing the Ashes and contextualisation