This Sunday Brian Cox will be preaching on “A bright and morning star”. We have just celebrated another Christmas, this one in rather different circumstances than any us have known before. If the social conditions have been unusual the traditional elements of Christmas remain unchanged but what, under the baubles, tinsel, holly and ivy, cards, gifts and feasting of the traditional Christmas are part of the historical Christmas? We will be considering this question in our meditation this coming Sunday morning and particularly looking at the story of the Wise Men and their journey to Bethlehem.