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Our latest news and informationMY WRITING LIFE – AUGUST 2021
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JESUS’ OTHER DISCIPLES
Proposition: That Jesus had two quite separate groups of disciples, those based in Galilee and those living in and around Jerusalem. 1 Scholarly minimalism Professor E P Sanders is a noted Jewish New Testament scholar. His book ‘The Historical Figure of Jesus’ has...
MY WRITING LIFE
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GOD AND US
THE TRINITY IN PRACTICE INTRODUCTION Last week I explained how the word ‘Trinity’ came to be coined and its fundamental meaning - three dimensions of God rather than three persons, which in modern English means something very different from the original...
GOD IN 3D
Here are some thoughts I have about what western Christians think is a great problem, and eastern Christians take as a fundamental truth. Eastern Christians There is a great little book called “The Orthodox Way” by Kallistos Ware, explaining simply how Orthodox...
MY WRITING LIFE
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BEYOND EASTER – ASCENSION
WHEN, WHERE AND WHY DID THE ASCENSION HAPPEN? View of the Mount of Olives from the Old City THE EVIDENCE At first there seems to be no problem about the Ascension - when Jesus left the earth and went into heaven (or the sky - the Greek means both). Luke, writing...
MY WRITING LIFE APRIL 2021
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TRAVELLING TO EASTER – 6
LOCATION, TIMING, LOCATION THE TRIALS OF JESUS Different stories The trials of Jesus are set out in the four gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The problem is that they all give different accounts. Here is what they say happened after Jesus was arrested...
TRAVELLING TO EASTER – 5
JESUS FAREWELL MEAL Celebrating at Hackbridge and online For twenty one years I was the priest-in-charge/vicar of All Saints Hackbridge and Beddington Corner, a small church in the southern suburbs of London, between Croydon and Sutton. Every year I would...