by Andy Roland | Apr 27, 2026 | Prayer
SIX PRAYER RESOURCES I thought it might be useful to someone if I described six prayer resources that I use personally. They range from cheap to free. PSALMS AS PRAYER In 1983 I took part in the morning prayers at Kurisumula Ashram in Kerala, India (fortunately...
by Andy Roland | Mar 19, 2026 | Bible, Jesus
THE POLITICS OF JESUS JESUS’ TIMES Jesus lived in turbulent times. It was just a hundred years before his birth that his region, (Galil Goyim means ‘Region of the Gentiles’) was conquered by the brutal Jewish king Aristobolus I and the population forcibly converted to...
by Andy Roland | Jan 20, 2026 | Bible, Jesus
JESUS AND MONEY ‘Jesus the Troublemaker’ is a novel I wrote about the last eight days of Jesus’ life. He spent at least four days teaching in the Temple doing that period, so I included an earlier typical incident from Luke. A young man says his...
by Andy Roland | Jan 14, 2025 | Bible, History of Israel and Judah
Between the Testaments What happened between the end of the Old Testament and the birth of Jesus? Answer, a lot! There are detailed accounts in the Apocrypha of the revolt of the Maccabees in 167 BCE. In fact if it hadn’t been for them, Galilee would...
by Andy Roland | Oct 21, 2024 | Bible
THE NEW ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND ALL THE REST! MY LIFE WITH THE BIBLE When I was born there was in effect only one translation of the Bible normally available, the Authorised Version of 1611 (AV), a wonderful poetic translation using the best scholarship of the...
