by Andy Roland | Jun 6, 2018 | Apostles and their Letters, Bible
PAUL ON FOOD Introduction It was all very well sorting out a compromise over how Jews and Gentiles could enter the new Jesus community, i.e. through adult baptism, NOT through adult circumcision and baptism. But if you were to have any kind of common life between...
by Andy Roland | May 24, 2018 | Church’s Year, Trinity
East vs West Here are some thoughts I have about what western Christians think is a great problem, and eastern Christians take as a fundamental truth. There is a great little book called “The Orthodox Way” by Kallistos Ware, explaining simply how Orthodox Christians...
by Andy Roland | May 10, 2018 | Ascension Day, Bible, Church’s Year, Jesus
WHAT HAPPENED ON ASCENSION DAY? You will be reading this while I am in Germany, celebrating Ascension Day, or, as they charmingly call it, Himmefahrt. This means Sky Journey, and everyone in Europe takes it off as a public holiday. Only in pagan old England is it...
by Andy Roland | May 7, 2018 | Apostles and their Letters, Bible
WHY WE GET PAUL WRONG – Part 2: The Question of Circumcision The word “mystery” is a favourite of Paul’s. He uses it twenty times. Here is an example: “the...
by Andy Roland | Apr 19, 2018 | Apostles and their Letters, Bible
WHY WE GET PAUL WRONG Part 1 Introduction Paul wrote an awful lot. And he wrote very emphatically about everything. The Church has always seen him as a prime source for its theology, its understanding of what the Christian faith is all about. BUT the Church always...
