by Andy Roland | Jun 19, 2023 | Newsletter, Post-modern times, Religion
WHERE AND WHEN From Wednesday 7th June to Sunday 10th 2023 the ancient imperial city of Nürnberg/Nuremberg welcomed 100,000 people of all ages to the great biennial Protestant church festival. Kirchentag means Church Day or Church Conference. This was my...
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 29, 2023 | Pentecost
WHY DOES THE CHURCH IGNORE THE HOLY SPIRIT? From 1980 to 2000 the Church of England celebrated the feast of Pentecost by having a complete week of Bible readings on the Holy Spirit. But in 2000 the new service book, ‘Common Worship’ abandoned that inspiring...
by Andy Roland | May 24, 2023 | Bible
INTRODUCTION It is a simple fact that all through Christian history people have experienced a spiritual change of heart, bringing a new vitality to their lives, coming through conversion and mystical experience. Here is a famous example. ‘In the...
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?’....
