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THE HISTORY OF HELL
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...
MY WRITING LIFE NOVEMBER 2022
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY IN BROCKENHURST, NEW FOREST WRITING Audiobooks The main triumph this month is getting the audio book of ‘Discovering Psalms as Prayer’ up and out through ‘Authors Republic’ - with the invaluable help of my narrator Peter...
THE ONLY WAY? Faith in a World of Faiths
THE DILEMMA The British comedy duo Pete and Dud (Peter Cook and Dudley Moore) once had a discussion over the question of other religions. Dud explained the problem: “You might be a perfickly good Buddhist and believe in Buddha and all that, and when you get to...
JESUS – THE FACTS
So, what are the facts about Jesus? Here are sixteen of them. At the end I describe my sources. Nazareth Village Fact 1 Early Years He was born. He was brought up in Nazareth, an out-of-the-way village five miles from the bustling city of...
CLEVER BUT NOT NICE – THE REAL KING SOLOMON
1 The Musical Solomon In 1748 Handel composed the oratorio ‘Solomon’, based on the stories about him in the Bible. The music is glorious. But it takes far too rosy a view of Solomon himself: “From the east unto the west,Who so wise as Solomon?Who like Israel’s...
STORY OF A BOOK ABOUT THE BOOK
In 2017 ‘Bible in Brief’ got published. In 2022 I am still discovering the benefits of my website. Here’s the story. PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE Normal practice is to write a book and then seek a publisher. I did it the other way round. Chris...
MY WRITING LIFE
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...
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE 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...
PENTECOST ACTUALLY
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...
MY WRITING LIFE MAY 2022
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...