by Andy Roland | May 24, 2023 | Bible
INTRODUCTION It is a simple fact that all through Christian history people have experienced a spiritual change of heart, bringing a new vitality to their lives, coming through conversion and mystical experience. Here is a famous example. ‘In the...
by Andy Roland | May 3, 2023 | Newsletter, writing
APRIL 2023 Me at the Hole WRITING I did two pieces of writing this month, both of them quite intense. The first was my blog on Good and Evil, part of the chapter ‘What’s the Problem’ in my future book “The Church has a Past – Has it got a Future?’....
by Andy Roland | Apr 26, 2023 | Religion, Science
How is it that human beings can be both amazingly kind and altruistic, and can also inflict brutal violence? Are we actually composed of two different species? What drives us in such different directions? THE WISE AND THE WICKED The Bible is quite...
by Andy Roland | Apr 5, 2023 | Bible, Holy Week, Jesus
A BIG QUESTION To people in the ancient world, Jesus died simply because he was a troublemaker and a bad Jew (a glutton and a drunkard – Luke 7.34). For Jews his death was a stumbling block to any attempt to take him seriously; to Gentiles his death was...
by Andy Roland | Apr 3, 2023 | Bible, Lent
MARCH 2023 Marketing Much of my marketing this month has been trying to drum up support for my two talks on Holy Week. So far with little success. There were just five of us at St Cuthbert’s on 28th, but one young lady did give me a lovely small pink rose...
