by Andy Roland | Dec 27, 2020 | Christmas, Church, Prayer, Religion
Straight after Christmas the Church celebrates a whole string of saints – mostly a tale of difficulty, disaster and death. I have never celebrated them day by day, but this year seems an excellent time to start. So here goes: Saturday 26th Boxing Day...
by Andy Roland | Dec 20, 2020 | Christmas, Church, Church’s Year, Prayer, Religion
PRAYERS AROUND THE WORLD FOR THE BIRTH OF CHRIST SUNDAY 20th December A Christian prayer Almighty and everlasting God,Who stooped to raise fallen humanityThrough the child-bearing of blessed Mary;Grant that we, who have seen your gloryrevealed in our human nature,may...
by Andy Roland | Dec 20, 2020 | Bible, Religion
One of the divides between the major faiths is ignorance, which then feeds prejudice. These blogs aim to help us pray and appreciate bow members fo other faiths pray. The theme this week is ‘Foundations’ – those prayers which as members for faith communities we...
by Andy Roland | Dec 19, 2020 | Bible
So – we’re back in lockdown. As the Chinese proverb says, “It’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.” So one thing I can do is to send out a prayer a day. I want to emphasise that we’re all in this together by including prayers and...
by Andy Roland | Nov 4, 2020 | Bible
MATTHEW GETS IT WRONG There are several ways in which, in my opinion, Matthew gets Jesus wrong. Here I am going to concentrate on just two parables, the parable of the labourers in the vineyard, 20.1-16, and the parable of the wedding banquet, 22.1-15. ...
