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...
by Andy Roland | Jan 20, 2023 | Easter, Jesus, Post-modern times, Religion
THE PSYCHIC REALM From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord deliver us. (Traditional Scottish prayer) As we think about death and what if anything might come after we need neither blind belief nor blind...
by Andy Roland | Jan 1, 2023 | Christmas, Newsletter, Religion
Hell I learnt a lot about Hell this month. I bought Bart Ehrman’s ‘A History of the Afterlife’ on Kindle. Long, scholarly, but accessible. I started it at the end of October. In December I checked out ’hell’ in other religions, thanks to...
by Andy Roland | Dec 19, 2022 | Advent, Bible, Church, Church’s Year, Religion
THE HISTORY OF HELL The Four Last Things I knew a priest went to buy some tobacco from a small tobacconist near St Paul’s on Christmas Eve. All the other shops were blazing with lights but not this one. The priest asked if he was not putting up any...
