The Three Kings -The Real Story

A light-hearted seasonal lecture for Christmas, describing what we actually know about the three kings – or rather what we don’t know.

For a start we don’t know how many “kings” there were. Matthew's Gospel doesn’t tell us. We assume they were 3 because they brought 3 gifts. But why gold, frankincense and myrrh? Also, there’s no reason to suppose they were kings of anywhere.

It took 500 years for them to be given names, even though we still don’t really know their gender – some of them might have been women. And since they gave away the timing of the birth of the baby Jesus to Herod the alleged baby slayer, we can reasonably assume they weren’t too clever – let alone wise!

How to book this event:

Book on the day at the venue. Doors and café open from 10.00 am. Visitors and new members welcome. Cost £12 payable on the door, refundable if you join as a member on the day.

THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Mr Tony Rawlins

Tony was educated at Highgate School, starting his career in advertising in 1965 as a mail boy in J.Walter Thompson. He graduated through the training system there to become an account director and subsequently worked in a number of agencies before setting up on his own in 1985. There he handled primarily Guinness advertising in Africa and the Caribbean, where he produced many commercials and print ads for them over a period of 15 years. He remains active as a consultant in the industry, but now concentrates on more philanthropic projects - producing a film in the rural villages of Nigeria for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. More recently he has completed a sanitation project in Haiti after it was devastated by Hurricane Matthew in 2016.

He has been a member of The Arts Society for many years. His earlier lecturing experience includes presenting to client groups, sales conferences and students of creative advertising in the UK and overseas. More recently he has been lecturing to Arts Societies in the UK and Europe.