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MY WRITING LIFE OCTOBER 2023
BOOK LAUNCH etc. The big event this month was the public launch of ‘Daily Prayers from the World’s Faiths’. This was on Thursday 19th at Holy Trinity Prince Consort Road, where I led the Sunday service every month for three years. Andrew Willson the...
BOOKS OR BELIEVERS – 2
GOD/NO GOD?
Starting to thinkI have been a Christian all my life, or at least since I was baptised at the age of 8. I am used to swimming in a Christian sea, even though my mother was a.Quaker Anglican and my father an agnostic Jew but were both very tolerant people That is why...
MY WRITING LIFE SEPTEMBER 2023
OUT AND ABOUT The first half of the month was taken up with a surprising number of visits outside London - surprising because they were unplanned. A fellow member of the ACW (Association of Christian Writers), Arnold, told me of a conference in Cambridge...
My Writing Life August 2023
WRITING At the beginning of the month I finished off my book ‘Daily Prayers from the World’s Faiths’. I visited Gulu Anand, a director of the Hindu Council UK, at his ‘Brilliant Restaurant’, who was very complimentary about my account of Hinduism. ...
MY WRITING LIFE JULY 2023
HOME This month was Linda’;s birthday, so I took her away for a week in our favourite spot - North York Moors. Weather mixed, but we had a lovely time. Two major domestic tech stuff. We gad a smart electricity meter instaled, and change d our broadband provided...
MY WRITING LIFE. MAY 2023
Wisdom in Earls Court CORONATION To be honest, I did not expect the coronation weekend to be so memorable. It started a day before with two splendid double page article on Charles and Camilla in the Evening Standard. On the day itself, I...
READINGS FOR PENTECOST WEEK
WHY DOES THE CHURCH IGNORE THE HOLY SPIRIT? From 1980 to 2000 the Church of England celebrated the feast of Pentecost by having a complete week of Bible readings on the Holy Spirit. But in 2000 the new service book, ‘Common Worship’ abandoned that inspiring...
TRANSFORMATIONS
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...
WHY DID JESUS DIE – ACCORDING TO 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...