It has been some time since something was posted to this blog and podcast and I have to apologise for that. Life events have taken over for the past few months. However thngs are settling down.

Listening to some feedback, the content will be switched to a more audio based format and I have made a small start in getting this together. I would also like to cover a broader range of topics and hopefully get a weekly show. To this end I would like to recruit one or two people to help in running the show. If you would like to help, please email me at chat@latedecember.co.uk and tell me about yourself and what you would like to do to help.

I hope to hear from you soon!

An Anglican priest in the northern English city of York told his parishioners that poor people struggling to survive should steal food and other essentials from shops, rather than raise money through prostitution, burglary or mugging.

Best-selling author and evangelist, Ray Comfort, said, “What may sound like compassion is actually pulpit betrayal. Rather than a sermon telling his hearers to steal from businesses, he should be telling them to take what they need from his own church’s collection plate. If he didn’t do that because his church is feeling the economic pinch, that brings into question his motive. If his parishioners take his advice and his weekly collection increases, he is benefiting from the crime he instigated and therefore complicit to it. The question also arises as to whether or not the priest personally practices what he preaches. Does he himself shoplift? If he doesn't, he's a hypocrite. If he does, then he's a criminal. If he says that he doesn't need to shoplift because he is financially sound, then he should be giving to his poor folks, rather than making them into thieves.”

Britain’s Daily Mail reported “He told parishioners it would not break the eighth commandment 'thou shalt not steal' because it 'is permissible for those who are in desperate situations to take food that they might not starve.' The Yorkshire Evening Post reported that he said, “‘My advice, as a Christian priest, is to shoplift,' he told his stunned congregation at St Lawrence and St Hilda in York.”

Comfort said, “The twisted advice of the Reverend is nothing new. The religious leaders at the time of Christ also perverted the Ten Commandments. In Matthew 15 they changed the Fifth so that they didn’t have to honor their father and mother, and they even tried to soften the Seventh. But in the Sermon on the Mount Jesus warned that God considers lust to be adultery of the heart.

“This all comes from something called ‘idolatry,’ which is the sin of making a god in your own image. Once you do that, anything goes. The Bible says that if you steal, even in the case of dire need, you pay back seven-fold. Sex becomes okay “if you love someone.” Lying becomes morally okay if they are lies that don’t “hurt” anyone. Adultery becomes acceptable if the marriage is boring, and the murder of children in the womb is permitted if a pregnancy is an inconvenience.” But the Bible is clear that all liars, adulterers, murderers and thieves will end up in Hell.

The Rev. Jones added, "I do not offer such advice because I think that stealing is a good thing, or because I think it is harmless, for it is neither." He said that people shouldn’t steal from small, family businesses, but from large national businesses.

Comfort, who spent a lot of his time feeding the homeless in Los Angeles’ infamous McArthur Park, said, “This is what happens when unconverted men go into the ministry. Many in today’s pulpits should have been plumbers, motivational speakers or bankers rather than what the Bible calls ‘preachers of righteousness.’ The moral Law is meant to show us that we are sinners and that we need a Savior. The Ten Commandments don't need changing. We do. We may change them to suit ourselves, but they will still be the standard of judgment on Judgment Day. God wrote them in stone for a reason.”

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Deborah Drapper explains 'Origins':

Yesterday, Dad, Joel, Kirsty, and I joined a team of around 20 others to take the 150th Anniversary Special Editions “Origin of Species” book into Oxford to give out to University Students.

I know you might be confused – “What? Deborah is giving out Charles Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’! Are you kidding me?”

Watch the video here or subscribe to the podcast!

'Evidence For A Global Flood : The Grand Canyon' - Takes a thorough look at the Geology of the Grand Canyon which supports the argument for a global flood of Noah. This video runs for 1hr 20 minutes. There is an alternative local flood theory which you can read more about here.



With thanks to the Edinburgh Creation Group for creating this video and allowing it to be used in this UK podcast. If you wish to view this video online or in a different video format, please click here (Updated - Direct Link).

These testimonies were created as part of the Gate International 'Love Dundee' summer event. Listen to how the lives of everyday people have been transformed.



With thanks to the Gate International, Dundee for creating these videos and allowing it to be used in this UK podcast.

Apologies for LateDecember taking a little summer break - hopefully we will be back to more regular episodes now!

This is a YouTube video - LateDecember is not podcasting this video as so long and I don't think we can get the rights to redistribute. There is a lot of book plugging and (US) politics in this lecture + QA session but there is some science in there too. In fairness to this side of the argument it is only fair to have a broad response to the Creationist videos that we have covered so far on LateDecember. Personally I am still working through the issue, please leave yours in a comment or send me an audio comment to the email address in the sidebar.

This is our second audio podcast, giving you the behind the scenes news from LateDecember and some music.

The artist in this episode is 3 In The Same and the music is from the Music Alley. We play the track 'The Fence'. If you have suggestions for tracks for the audio podcast or any other thoughts, please leave a comment!

A 6000 year young Earth or a 4.5 to 4.6 billion year old Earth? Dr Marc Surtees examines the scientific evidence from Biology, Astronomy, Chemistry, History and Geology. Plus 'What does the Bible say' is (of course!) covered too.



With thanks to the Edinburgh Creation Group for creating this video and allowing it to be used in this UK podcast. If you wish to view this video online or in a different video format, please click here.

What is a Podcast all about?

It is a way of getting regular video and audio content to your computer or mobile device (such as an iPod). This allows you to easily create a custom library of on demand content that is exactly what you want that you can consume when you want. Best of all, most podcasts are free to download! Using software such as Apple's iTunes (you don't need a iPod to use iTunes) automatically download new episodes.

For the Christian Church this is a great medium. Firstly it allows the bypassing of borders (I podcast many US radio programs such as Wretched Radio) and the secular media. Secondly it is a fairly cheap and flexible method requiring only everyday software and hardware.

The BBC have a good guide to introduce you to the joys of podcasting. Follow this Link for a video and more information.

The Iranian election has been dominating the news in recent weeks and many images from Iran have been beamed around the world. In this podcast we delve into Iran's history as the Persian culture and see how it relates to the Old Testament.

"In the Bible Persia interacts a great deal with the nation of Israel. But how do the recorded historical accounts of the Persians match up with those of Israel recorded in the Bible. Dr Mark Woolmer investigates."



With thanks to the Edinburgh Creation Group for creating this video and allowing it to be used in this UK podcast. If you wish to view this video online or in a different video format, please click here.

To find out more about Christianity in Iran, please visit this Wikipedia article. Please pray for the Christians in Iran today and for the salvation and peace of the entire nation.

For a trial period LateDecember is offering free Christian videos on CD to UK residents.

Perhaps you are stuck on a slow internet connection or perhaps you are on a borrowed computer. If you are genuinely having these issues I would be delighted to send you a CD with the latest LateDecember Christian podcast audio and video files on them. Also if you would like to sharing your faith with a friend (are they interested in creationism or evolution or Church or the Bible or Christianity) please ask for a copy too.

Please use the email link in the sidebar to send me and email requesting a CD and give me your address to send it to (UK only - sorry!). We will see how this works out. Please let me know what you have liked in the podcasts so far and why you are requesting a CD. We will use this feedback to improve the service