by Andy Roland | Mar 1, 2021 | Bible, Holy Week, Jesus
Between now and Easter (4th April) I will be writing a series of weekly blogs on Jesus’ last eight days as he travels from the Jordan valley, up to the Temple in Jerusalem, through his confrontations with the authorities to his arrest and death, up to his appearance...
by Andy Roland | Feb 21, 2021 | Bible
WHAT HAPPENED WHERE? Holy Week and the Problem of Place Introduction It is always moving to walk about Jerusalem and try to retrace the actual footsteps of Jesus, most famously along the Via Dolorosa. But Jerusalem has been destroyed and rebuilt so many times...
by Andy Roland | Feb 13, 2021 | Bible
Holy Week and the Problem of Time Introduction Unless we are an academic theologian, we normally don’t worry too much about problems of time as we read the accounts of Holy Week in the gospels. We may be subconsciously aware of certain discrepancies between the...
by Andy Roland | Feb 2, 2021 | Bible, Law, Psalms & Wisdom
How Psalms can help us get our prayers off the ground One reaction Last week I sent my ‘Discovering Psalms as Prayer’ to a fellow- retired priest, Canon Robin Morrison (author of ‘Love’s Energy’*). He sent me back a long reflective piece about it. Here are...
by Andy Roland | Jan 22, 2021 | Bible
WELCOME to the WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY – 2 18 – 25/1/21 Introduction Here beginneth the second instalment of my account of Christian Unity Week in Jerusalem which I attended in 2017. All the extracts come from my book ‘A Week of Prayer in...
by Andy Roland | Jan 8, 2021 | Bible, Post-modern times, Prayer, Psalms, Religion
BORIS’S BAD NEWS Cromwell Road, the A4 towards London On Monday 4th Boris announced we were all going into Tier 5 – effectively a lockdown – and ordered us all to stay at home. Up till then I had had quite a good lockdown, able to work on my laptop...
