by Andy Roland | Oct 11, 2023 | Bible
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. ...
by Andy Roland | Aug 14, 2023 | Bible
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...
by Andy Roland | Jun 2, 2023 | Bible, Newsletter, Pentecost, writing
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...
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 | 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...
