by Andy Roland | Oct 16, 2022 | Bible
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...
by Andy Roland | Sep 21, 2022 | Bible, History of Israel and Judah
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...
by Andy Roland | Aug 19, 2022 | Bible
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...
by Andy Roland | Aug 4, 2022 | Bible, Church, Psalms
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...
by Andy Roland | Jul 18, 2022 | 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...
by Andy Roland | Jun 14, 2022 | Bible, Pentecost
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...
