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 than I could chew. I still think that. But when I started by defining terms, it did come together. Though it is...
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 received the blog. The last two weeks we spent with Linda’s Canadian cousins, starting in Cawsands, Cornwall, followed by six...
MY KIRCHENTAG
HANNOVER KIRCHENTAG 2025 Mutig, stark, beherzt This was the motto of the 39th Protestant German Kirchentag meeting in Hanover in April/May. Courageous, strong, resolute, (quoting 1 Corinthians 16.13). Over 100,000 people met over five days for an...
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 thought. As you know, I covered two topics: a Question of Truth, and Demons and Hell. But I then realised I needed to talk about what...
THE CHURCH OF NICAEA – Part 1
THE CHURCH OF NICAEA - part 1 The bishops who gathered at Nicaea under the chairmanship of the emperor Constantine in 325 belonged to a very different church from the one we are familiar with today. This article explores some of the differences. ...
NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 2025
MY WRITING LIFE FEBRUARY 2025 Me in the Central Middlesex WRITING Nicaea. I finished writing my blog ‘Was Nicaea a Mistake’ and as you know sent it out mid-month. My brain really hurt after all that thinking! Parish history. I decided my next...
WAS NICAEA A MISTAKE?
SHOULD NICAEA HAVE HAPPENED? Summary In 325 AD the Roman emperor Constantine summoned a General Council of 318 bishops to debate the nature of God, Father, Son and Spirit. What was determined we now repeat every Sunday in churches all over the world in...
NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2025
MY WORKING LIFE IN JANUARY WRITING Not much writing this month. I did go through all the proof corrections and suggestions for ‘The Church has a Past - has a it got a Future?’. I did this in two new cafes, an excellent one at the top of the Design Museum,...
BETHLEHEM NOW
My visit in 2017 was quite depressing. That was only partly due to the weather which was cold and rainy…. ‘Residents are traumatised by the constant fear, their daily life restricted by a web of checkpoints and roving roadblocks.
MY WRITING LIFE
NOVEMBER 2024 Kingdom Cafe, High Weald of Kent WRITING & LEARNING More learning than writing this month. And good thing too! Even writing my blog on Tom Holland’s book “Dominion’ meant re-reading it and engaging with it so that my blog on it made sense. On 3rd...
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