Ken Burton<\/strong><\/p>\n Ken Burton is perhaps best known as conductor of both the London Adventist Chorale and the Croydon SDA Gospel Choir. He is also often seen on programmes such as the BBC\u2019s Songs of Praise \u2013 but his TV career, alongside composing, judging, training and singing goes far beyond that. He is possibly the most recognised Seventh-day Adventist in the UK. <\/p>\n In a Zoom interview Burton described how humour helped him and others cope at the beginning of lockdown, how the creativity of an active mind led from humour into devotion, and how in the midst of the current #blacklivesmatter focus, we need to distinguish between diatribe and dialogue, noting that if we don\u2019t get it right, we end up instead with \u2018die-alouge\u2019. He emphasises, \u201cbe mindful\u201d and work towards positive solutions with \u201ctempered honesty\u201d.<\/p>\n Patrick Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n As Christians, from whatever background, Johnson emphasises that our God-given challenge is to develop our skills of compassion, to fight injustice, to avoid complacency and despise pretentious piety.<\/p>\n https:\/\/youtu.be\/k-Ydf-CavIs<\/p>\n This edition is intended to be thought-provoking \u2013 with the hope that we all learn together with mindful, tempered honesty, enjoying positive dialogue as we journey together.<\/p>\n SEE ALSO<\/p>\n![\"Ken](\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/images_news-2020_Ken_Burton_photo.JPG\")
<\/a>As a committed Christian, Burton sees both his public life and his personal social media as a positive place to demonstrate that Christians are \u2018real people\u2019, that they even have a sense of humour, and that they have positive ways to cope in times of crisis.<\/p>\n<\/a>Patrick Johnson is a pastor with broad international experience. Initially qualified as a nurse, he worked in both England and Norway. He then moved on to serve as a pastor, again serving first in Norway and then as senior pastor of the highly diverse Newbold church in Binfield England. For the past four years, he has served as Ministerial Association secretary for the Trans-European Division (TED), where his sensitivity and understanding have helped in the discipleship and development of ministry across the 22 countries of the TED.
As a deep student of Scripture, he has been aiming to learn personal lessons from all the Bible authors. In today\u2019s presentation he tackles racism and its surrounding issues with insights from the book of Amos and the four things that God hates.<\/p>\n\n
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