by Andy Roland | Aug 4, 2022 | Bible, Church, Psalms
Bishop Tor and me JULY 2022 PSALMS AND PILGRIMAGE SPECIAL DAYS The end of teh month was all about psalms and pilgrimage. The first two and a half weeks had several special days in them. Our son Peter and his girlfriend Helen stayed with his grandfather for a...
by Andy Roland | Jul 18, 2022 | Bible
TOO LONG, TOO CONFUSING, TOO VIOLENT ? INTRODUCTION “I don’t read the Bible because it is too long and too complicated.” That’s what I put on the back cover of my first book, ‘Bible in Brief’. I wrote the book explicitly to help people who...
by Andy Roland | Jul 1, 2022 | Newsletter
Not much writing All I wrote during this last month was my blog on Pentecost – late, I should have done it a month earlier. I had given a draft copy of “The Church has a Past – has it got a Future?” to a member of our Bible study group for...
by Andy Roland | Jun 14, 2022 | Bible, Pentecost
WHERE? I made my first visit to Jerusalem in December 1963. It was then split between Israel and Jordan, and I had no access to the Old City. The owner of the Holyland Hotel in West Jerusalem had compensated by creating a very large model of 1st...
by Andy Roland | Jun 6, 2022 | Church, Newsletter
NOT MUCH WRITING! Not much writing this month. What with seventeen days’ holiday and a five day long weekend for a family wedding, I only had six working days. Instead, Linda and I explored Northumberland and Somerset. I went to four different...
