Church – Pergamum – A New Name

Giant man-bats with blue skin were the astonishing sights witnessed by John Herschel, an eminent British astronomer, when, in 1835, he pointed a powerful telescope towards the Moon. That was the news digested by the readers of the New York Sun. It seems fake news is not a new idea. From Facebook to the BBC News we too are bombarded with supposed truths from the start to the end of our day. Jesus warned us of this phenomena many times and he warned us again in this week’s reading. How do we discern the difference between absolute truth and fake news? That is this week’s truth we need to discover together.