by Andy Roland | May 29, 2022 | Bible
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...
by Andy Roland | May 2, 2022 | Easter, Newsletter
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...
by Andy Roland | Apr 19, 2022 | Bible, Easter, Jesus
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...
by Andy Roland | Apr 2, 2022 | Lent, Newsletter
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...
by Andy Roland | Mar 17, 2022 | Bible, Jesus, Post-modern times
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. ...
