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THE SOURCES The story of Easter is well-known: the empty tomb, Jesus appearing to Mary Magdalene in the garden, and later to his disciples. There are five sources for the story, the four gospels and Paul’ s letter to Christians in Corinth. The...
MY WRITING LIFE MARCH 2022
LENT My March Newsletter starts with Ash Wednesday on 2nd March, the start of Lent. I still sold a few copies of “Journey through Lent with Jesus’. More important, I have used it myself each day. I find it consistently interesting and...
THE ATHEIST AND THE PRIEST – TWO NOVELS ABOUT JESUS
THE GOOD MAN JESUS AND THE SCOUNDREL CHRIST In 2010 Philip Pullman published his novel about Jesus. The original back cover had the sublimely simple message “This is a story.” The novel is a strange mixture of complete imagination and biblical accuracy. ...
MY WRITING LIFE FEBRUARY 2022
SELLING BOOKS As usual, I was late in getting my books out there. ‘Journey through Lent with Jesus’ appeared a week after all the reviews of Lent books. Ah well. So I did my best to sell books in person, with some success. On Tuesday/Wednesday...
LEARNING ABOUT JESUS THROUGH WRITING FICTION
INTRODUCTION On September 24th 2020 I started writing my historical novel ‘Jesus the Troublemaker’ and published it a year ago. It did not make my fortune! However, I learnt more about Jesus during Holy Week through writing a fictional account than I had...
EPIPHANY – A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE
WHAT IS EPIPHANY? There is a story of a new curate who was discussing church services with his vicar shortly before Christmas. The vicar noticed a slight shadow crossed the young curate’ face when he talked about January services and mentioned Epiphany....
THE QU’RAN AT CHRISTMAS
Do all Christians believe in the Virgin Birth? Probably not. How many Christians do believe that Jesus born of Mary while she was still a virgin? In a real biological miracle? Apparently 80% of Christians in the West do so. But 20% do not. ...
MY WRITING LIFE NOVEMBER 2021
www.bibleinbrief.com [email protected] Facebook/revandybooks twitter.com/rev_andy_books linkedin.com/andrewroland [email protected]. 07508961055 IT IS FINISHED! At last I have finished ‘Journey through Lent with Jesus’. ...
LIGHT FROM THE EAST?
INDIAN JOURNEY Thirty years ago I spent nine weeks in India, most of the time at the Tamilnadu Theological Seminary in Madurai. It was an incredibly learning experience. I was in the middle of my ordination training and went with one particular question in my...
MY WRITING LIFE OCTOBER 2021
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