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My Writing Life August 2023
WRITING At the beginning of the month I finished off my book ‘Daily Prayers from the World’s Faiths’. I visited Gulu Anand, a director of the Hindu Council UK, at his ‘Brilliant Restaurant’, who was very complimentary about my account of Hinduism. ...
MY WRITING LIFE JULY 2023
HOME This month was Linda’;s birthday, so I took her away for a week in our favourite spot - North York Moors. Weather mixed, but we had a lovely time. Two major domestic tech stuff. We gad a smart electricity meter instaled, and change d our broadband provided...
MY WRITING LIFE. MAY 2023
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...
READINGS FOR PENTECOST WEEK
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...
TRANSFORMATIONS
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...
WHY DID JESUS DIE – ACCORDING TO 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...
MY WRITING LIFE
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...
JANUARY NEWSLETTER 2023
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...
DEATH ETC. – PART 1
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...
MY WRITING LIFE DECEMBER 2022
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...