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Bishop Tor and me JULY 2022 PSALMS AND PILGRIMAGE SPECIAL DAYS The end of teh month was all about psalms and pilgrimage. The first two and a half weeks had several special days in them. Our son Peter and his girlfriend Helen stayed with his grandfather for a...
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE BIBLE?
TOO LONG, TOO CONFUSING, TOO VIOLENT ? INTRODUCTION “I don’t read the Bible because it is too long and too complicated.” That’s what I put on the back cover of my first book, ‘Bible in Brief’. I wrote the book explicitly to help people who...
PENTECOST ACTUALLY
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...
MY WRITING LIFE MAY 2022
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...
STORIES
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...
MY WRITING LIFE APRIL 2022
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...
SOLVING THE EASTER ENIGMA
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...
MY WRITING LIFE MARCH 2022
LENT My March Newsletter starts with Ash Wednesday on 2nd March, the start of Lent. I still sold a few copies of “Journey through Lent with Jesus’. More important, I have used it myself each day. I find it consistently interesting and...
THE ATHEIST AND THE PRIEST – TWO NOVELS ABOUT JESUS
THE GOOD MAN JESUS AND THE SCOUNDREL CHRIST In 2010 Philip Pullman published his novel about Jesus. The original back cover had the sublimely simple message “This is a story.” The novel is a strange mixture of complete imagination and biblical accuracy. ...
MY WRITING LIFE FEBRUARY 2022
SELLING BOOKS As usual, I was late in getting my books out there. ‘Journey through Lent with Jesus’ appeared a week after all the reviews of Lent books. Ah well. So I did my best to sell books in person, with some success. On Tuesday/Wednesday...