by Andy Roland | Apr 3, 2023 | Bible, Lent
MARCH 2023 Marketing Much of my marketing this month has been trying to drum up support for my two talks on Holy Week. So far with little success. There were just five of us at St Cuthbert’s on 28th, but one young lady did give me a lovely small pink rose...
by Andy Roland | Mar 25, 2023 | Religion
As we look around at the world – both the world outside us and the world within us, we may find ourselves confronting not one problem but two: the problem of sin and the problem of good and evil. THE PROBLEM OF SIN Does it mean anything? When Calvin...
by Andy Roland | Feb 20, 2023 | Post-modern times, Religion
CRISIS? WHAT CRISIS THE NUMBERS GAME ‘ The Lobster If you want to cook a live lobster, it’s important not to throw it into boiling water. It will then struggle desperately to escape. You put it into a pan of cold water and slowly increase the heat. The...
by Andy Roland | Jan 31, 2023 | Bible, writing
MY WRITING LIFE JANUARY 2023 A New Year Linda has spent all of January in Plympton with her father who went down with Covid and is recovering quite slowly. So I invited quite a lot of people around for food and drink, starting with three neighbours for a...
by Andy Roland | Jan 21, 2023 | Religion
THE REALM OF LIGHT To die, to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream; for in that sleep of death what dreams may come must give us pause. (‘Hamlet’, Shakespeare) Medical death In 1981 50 states of the United States adopted the Uniform Determination of...
