by Andy Roland | Jun 14, 2022 | Bible, Pentecost
WHERE? I made my first visit to Jerusalem in December 1963. It was then split between Israel and Jordan, and I had no access to the Old City. The owner of the Holyland Hotel in West Jerusalem had compensated by creating a very large model of 1st...
by Andy Roland | Jun 6, 2022 | Church, Newsletter
NOT MUCH WRITING! Not much writing this month. What with seventeen days’ holiday and a five day long weekend for a family wedding, I only had six working days. Instead, Linda and I explored Northumberland and Somerset. I went to four different...
by Andy Roland | May 29, 2022 | Bible
Sapiens In his magisterial book ‘Sapiens’ (2011) the Israeli historian Harari sets out to cover the whole of human history. The crucial period was the Cognitive Revolution of 70,000 to 30,000 BCE. Suddenly (in a geological sense) Homo Sapiens was able to...
by Andy Roland | May 2, 2022 | Easter, Newsletter
COUNTDOWN TO EASTER The first half of April was dominated for me by Holy Week and Easter. On Tuesday 5th I started a series of five minutes daily readings from ‘Jesus the Troublemaker’, tracing Jesus’/Yeshua’s journey for the Jordan valley to the...
by Andy Roland | Apr 19, 2022 | Bible, Easter, Jesus
THE SOURCES The story of Easter is well-known: the empty tomb, Jesus appearing to Mary Magdalene in the garden, and later to his disciples. There are five sources for the story, the four gospels and Paul’ s letter to Christians in Corinth. The...
