by Andy Roland | Apr 26, 2023 | Religion, Science
How is it that human beings can be both amazingly kind and altruistic, and can also inflict brutal violence? Are we actually composed of two different species? What drives us in such different directions? THE WISE AND THE WICKED The Bible is quite...
by Andy Roland | Apr 5, 2023 | Bible, Holy Week, Jesus
A BIG QUESTION To people in the ancient world, Jesus died simply because he was a troublemaker and a bad Jew (a glutton and a drunkard – Luke 7.34). For Jews his death was a stumbling block to any attempt to take him seriously; to Gentiles his death was...
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...
