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HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND ALL PRAYERS FOR 2017! #ChristmasCard

So … it’s nearly the end of 2016! Hurrah, say many of you! So, it’s time for my e-Christmas card!

For the first time this year, alongside Advent material from Brian Draper and Embrace the Middle East, I’ve decided to do a ‘Reverse Advent Calendar‘, either to go to Trussell Trust, or a local charity I’ve become aware of – Re:dish, because one of the challenges of 2016 that there has been (aside from the global/celebrity stuff), is an increasing awareness of the importance of the #rethinksanctions campaign, especially in Manchester where homelessness is so evident.

And, a fraction late, we’re off #foodbank

A photo posted by Bex Lewis (@drbexl) on

Another area of concern, looking after the refugees – as in the original ‘Christmas Story‘ – is well illustrated in this video:

Also reflected in @JustinWelby’s speech on #UKValues:

So, lots of prayers for those, known and unknown, in a year that has felt difficult on a global scale!

So, taking a lighter tone, just because I enjoyed this:

remembering this, of course, from the Muslim Council of Great Britain:

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…. and on that note, hopefully in 2017, you’ll see publication of a book or two related to Keep Calm and Carry On, and my PhD thesis!

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Dr Bex Lewis is passionate about helping people engage with the digital world in a positive way, where she has more than 20 years’ experience. She is Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing at Manchester Metropolitan University and Visiting Research Fellow at St John’s College, Durham University, with a particular interest in digital culture, persuasion and attitudinal change, especially how this affects the third sector, including faith organisations, and, after her breast cancer diagnosis in 2017, has started to research social media and cancer. Trained as a mass communications historian, she has written the original history of the poster Keep Calm and Carry On: The Truth Behind the Poster (Imperial War Museum, 2017), drawing upon her PhD research. She is Director of social media consultancy Digital Fingerprint, and author of Raising Children in a Digital Age: Enjoying the Best, Avoiding the Worst  (Lion Hudson, 2014; second edition in process) as well as a number of book chapters, and regularly judges digital awards. She has a strong media presence, with her expertise featured in a wide range of publications and programmes, including national, international and specialist TV, radio and press, and can be found all over social media, typically as @drbexl.

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