Dear all, Upon inheriting the Looking Glass from our predecessors, we identified a number of key issues. Firstly, there were simply not enough articles being published, due both to a lack of submissions from the school community and limited responsiveness from the previous Academic Team. Secondly, the Looking Glass had not been advertised or explained effectively enough to the wider school community. As a result, we plan to implement a more consistent and engaging stream of articles on the Looking Glass. As part of this initiative, we are looking to recruit a select group of keen writers from across the lower school who would be willing to produce one high-quality piece of writing, discussion, or media each month for publication on the Looking Glass. We believe this will be hugely beneficial both to the school community, which will gain access to a wider range of opinions and viewpoints, and to prospective writers, who will be able to reference their experience contributing to the Look...
[Image credit: https://pixabay.com/photos/written-art-monastery-church-4934081/ ] This essay won the inaugural WBGS Fuller Research Prize Competition in 2021 JOE MCHUGH When was Jesus born? At face value, this question seems like a simple one to answer. The day? the 25 th . The month? December. The year? Well, if the year now is AD 2021, then surely Jesus was born 2021 years ago. So, December 25 th , 2021 years ago, making that the year 0? However, the Anno Domini system of dating years we use in our calendar, the Gregorian calendar, does not include a year 0. Instead, it skips from 1BC to AD 1. The contemporary consensus on Jesus’ birth year is c.4BC. How can someone be born four years before their own birthday? This date bases itself on the historical figure in the Bible, King Herod, the Roman client King of Judea from 36-1BC. 1 In addition to ancient historians, astrological data about the presumed Star of Bethlehem in Mathew 2:1-2 also concludes c.4BC. The lunar occulta...