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MY WRITING LIFE
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...
JANUARY NEWSLETTER 2023
MY WRITING LIFE JANUARY 2023 A New Year Linda has spent all of January in Plympton with her father who went down with Covid and is recovering quite slowly. So I invited quite a lot of people around for food and drink, starting with three neighbours for a...
DEATH ETC. – PART 1
THE PSYCHIC REALM From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord deliver us. (Traditional Scottish prayer) As we think about death and what if anything might come after we need neither blind belief nor blind...
MY WRITING LIFE DECEMBER 2022
Hell I learnt a lot about Hell this month. I bought Bart Ehrman’s ‘A History of the Afterlife’ on Kindle. Long, scholarly, but accessible. I started it at the end of October. In December I checked out ’hell’ in other religions, thanks to...
THE HISTORY OF HELL
THE HISTORY OF HELL The Four Last Things I knew a priest went to buy some tobacco from a small tobacconist near St Paul’s on Christmas Eve. All the other shops were blazing with lights but not this one. The priest asked if he was not putting up any...
MY WRITING LIFE NOVEMBER 2022
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY IN BROCKENHURST, NEW FOREST WRITING Audiobooks The main triumph this month is getting the audio book of ‘Discovering Psalms as Prayer’ up and out through ‘Authors Republic’ - with the invaluable help of my narrator Peter...
THE ONLY WAY? Faith in a World of Faiths
THE DILEMMA The British comedy duo Pete and Dud (Peter Cook and Dudley Moore) once had a discussion over the question of other religions. Dud explained the problem: “You might be a perfickly good Buddhist and believe in Buddha and all that, and when you get to...
JESUS – THE FACTS
So, what are the facts about Jesus? Here are sixteen of them. At the end I describe my sources. Nazareth Village Fact 1 Early Years He was born. He was brought up in Nazareth, an out-of-the-way village five miles from the bustling city of...
CLEVER BUT NOT NICE – THE REAL KING SOLOMON
1 The Musical Solomon In 1748 Handel composed the oratorio ‘Solomon’, based on the stories about him in the Bible. The music is glorious. But it takes far too rosy a view of Solomon himself: “From the east unto the west,Who so wise as Solomon?Who like Israel’s...
STORY OF A BOOK ABOUT THE BOOK
In 2017 ‘Bible in Brief’ got published. In 2022 I am still discovering the benefits of my website. Here’s the story. PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE Normal practice is to write a book and then seek a publisher. I did it the other way round. Chris...