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 3, 2023 | Newsletter, writing
APRIL 2023 Me at the Hole WRITING I did two pieces of writing this month, both of them quite intense. The first was my blog on Good and Evil, part of the chapter ‘What’s the Problem’ in my future book “The Church has a Past – Has it got a Future?’....
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 1, 2023 | Christmas, Newsletter, Religion
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...
by Andy Roland | Jul 1, 2022 | Newsletter
Not much writing All I wrote during this last month was my blog on Pentecost – late, I should have done it a month earlier. I had given a draft copy of “The Church has a Past – has it got a Future?” to a member of our Bible study group for...
by Andy Roland | Jun 6, 2022 | Church, Newsletter
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...