I ran out of time for preparing more Da Vinci Code audio for my site. I may put up a more recent one when the DVD comes out later in the year.

Meanwhile, the Above Bar Church website website now carries dowloads of Sunday sermons so there’s some recent material from me there. Of particular interest might be my two-parter on Engaging with the real world – part one and part two.

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I neglected to inform the world that my recording of a Men’s Breakfast at King’s Community Church, Hedge End (Southampton) is now available. It didn’t seem to be the right context to talk about the sacred feminine and goddess spirituality, so instead I talked about The Da Vinci Code and conspiracy theories. I highlighted a number of features of conspiracy theories and suggested that, despite Dan Brown’s protests, The Da Vinci Code strongly fits the criteria. I compared the lack of evidence for the ideas which Brown claims he believes with the strong evidence for the historically orthodox understanding of Christianity and the gospels.

All my available recordings are at www.tonywatkins.co.uk – or follow the Read More link below.

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I’ve now added the recordings of Wednesday evening’s events at Above Bar Church, Southampton, which I shared with David Couchman of Focus.

I talked about the appeal of The Da Vinci Code, its opposition to orthodox historical Christianity, the sacred feminine and goddess spirituality.

David addressed three key claims in the book: that the Gnostic gospels discovered at Nag Hammadi are earlier than the biblical gospels and give us a more historically truthful account of Jesus, that the council of Nicea in AD 325 voted to treat Jesus as divine although he had only been considered mortal until that point, and that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene.

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I’ve done a number of Da Vinci Code events recently, some of which I recorded. The audio files are now available online for a limited period (as new material becomes available, older material will be kicked out).

The first is from an event in London which includes some material on Leonardo and on the supposedly factual Priory of Sion. Dan Brown claims that its history goes back to 1099, but in reality it only goes as far back as 1956 when it was started by a convicted fraudster Pierre Plantard.

The second is from an event in Whiteparish, Wiltshire, and includes material on spirituality in The Da Vinci Code – in particular the quest for the sacred feminine and goddess spirituality. You can read my article on this on CultureWatch.

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An MP3 recording of my most recent sermon in Above Bar Church is now available to download from this site. It’s on Nehemiah 5, which is about the people of Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile trying to rebuild Jerusalem’s walls. Having faced significant opposition from neighbouring rulers, Nehemiah found himself dealing with some serious complaints about some of his fellow Jews. Nehemiah, as usual, tackles the problem head on, and in doing so illuminates some major problems of our own world, in particular slavery.

The day I preached this sermon, the Sunday Telegraph published an article on sex slaves in Britain: Revealed: The gangs busing sex slaves between towns (by David Harrison, 21 May 2006). How can we let such things go on in our world?

For more on the issue of trafficking, see Stop The Traffik.

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