by Andy Roland | Jan 31, 2023 | Bible, writing
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...
by Andy Roland | Jan 20, 2023 | Easter, Jesus, Post-modern times, Religion
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...
by Andy Roland | Dec 19, 2022 | Advent, Bible, Church, Church’s Year, Religion
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...
by Andy Roland | Dec 4, 2022 | Bible
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...
by Andy Roland | Nov 20, 2022 | Bible, Post-modern times, Religion
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...
by Andy Roland | Oct 16, 2022 | Bible
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...
