by Andy Roland | Jan 14, 2025 | Bible, History of Israel and Judah
Between the Testaments What happened between the end of the Old Testament and the birth of Jesus? Answer, a lot! There are detailed accounts in the Apocrypha of the revolt of the Maccabees in 167 BCE. In fact if it hadn’t been for them, Galilee would...
by Andy Roland | Oct 21, 2024 | Bible
THE NEW ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND ALL THE REST! MY LIFE WITH THE BIBLE When I was born there was in effect only one translation of the Bible normally available, the Authorised Version of 1611 (AV), a wonderful poetic translation using the best scholarship of the...
by Andy Roland | Aug 21, 2024 | Bible, Paul
LOVE ACTUALLY WHAT IS LOVE? The film ‘Love Actually’ is a great movie. It’s funny, sad, heartwarming, hopeful. And it shows many different aspects of love. We see love and longing, love and delight, love and fear, love and grief, love and betrayal....
by Andy Roland | Jun 3, 2024 | Jesus, Newsletter, writing
MY WRITING LIFE MAY 2024 Spring at Chartwell. FAMILY AND FRIENDS The month started with Linda and I having a lovely weekend in the High Weald of Kent, eating at a great local pub ‘The Greyhound’. This was getting ready for the woodland burial of Linda’s friend...
by Andy Roland | May 30, 2024 | Apostles and their Letters, Bible, Jesus
Introduction There is a story of a waiter in a ’nouvelle cuisine’ restaurant asking a diner, “How did you find your steak, sir?” The response was, “I lifted up a pea and there it was.” Surely an article which appears to ask a similarly simplistic question,...
