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Entrance to Saccidanda monastery, South India

TRINITY EAST AND WEST

TRINITY AND VEDANTA When I sat down to write my monthly blog on the Trinity West and East, I really thought that I had bitten off more...
in a monastery garden

MY WRITING LIFE

MAY 2025 Not so much time for serious stuff.  The first five days were taken up with the Kirchentag, about which you have already...
Andy at the Messe - Exhibition Grounds in Hanover

MY KIRCHENTAG

HANNOVER KIRCHENTAG 2025 Mutig, stark, beherzt This was the motto of the 39th Protestant German Kirchentag meeting in Hanover in...
Andy at Cawsands

NEWSLETTER MARCH 2025

MY WRITING LIFE MARCH 2025   Me at Cawsands, Cornwall WRITING I finished my blog on the Church of Nicaea by 12th - or so I...

Welcome to Rev Andy Books!

The website that does what it say on the tin.  It is by Rev Andy, a retired vicar in Earls Court, London, who writes books.

What is this?

Here you will find a brief introduction to Rev Andy, access to his books, the latest news, and some thought-provoking blogs, with themes like “What does it mean to call Jesus ‘Son of God’?”; “Is there anything after death?” And “What about other faiths?”

Who am I?

I am an open-minded Christian.  My Mum was a Quaker Anglican and my Dad an agnostic Jew.  Both exceptionally honourable people.  I went to Oxford University where I studied history.  So I look at the Bible first of all as a historical document, some excellent history and some not so excellent.  I believe that ‘God’ (not an easy word) is, as the poet Tennyson said, “closer than breathing, and nearer than hands a feet.”  Jesus is a pretty impressive guy.

I became a vicar some 40 years ago and worked in parishes in south London.  I retired in 2015 and have since written 8 books and am working on a couple more.  My three most popular are on this page, the rest are on my shop button; and of course on Amazon.  Two of them, Jesus the Troublemaker and Discovering Psalms as Prayer, are also on audio.

Rev Andy

Rev Andy’s Books

Here are my top published books

daily prayers from the worlds faith
Psalms
Jesus-the-Troublemaker
Bible-in-Brief

Rev Andy’S Latest News

THE BOOK LAUNCH

 

 Andy’s braqnd new book ‘The Church has a Past – Has it got a Future’ will be launched on Monday 7th July (7/7) at St mary Abbot’s Church, Kensington.

Time:  6.30 pm, btu doors open at 6.00 got cheese and wine (free).

Andy’s book asks three quesitons:

1   Over the past centuries, wha tquesitons arose frm society to whicnthe Churh might be able to respond?

2.  What new changes adn developments have ther been over thal last 25 years to change the landscape of our society – politics, climate change, social media, differing sexualities, video games, etc.

3.  What queston does the Church need to ask itslef just to be hearfd by teh surrounding society, e.g. Is ‘God’past its sell-by date?  Jesus – what are the facts?  teh Hisotyr of Hell, teh Puzzle of Good and Evil, Death etc.  Etc.

Do Come on 7/7!

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