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...
DOMINION
Dominion – a rollicking ride through Christian history
MY WRITING LIFE
OCTOBER 2024 Autumn at Sissinghurst WRITING Introduction and Conclusion October was a big month of writing of my new book ‘The Church has a Past - Has it got a Future?’ I had completed it apart from the Introduction and Conclusion to Part 3 ‘Being Credible in...
NEWSLETTER 9/24
MY WRITING LIFE See last month's on https://revandybooks.org/2024/09/03/newsletter-8-24/ SEPTEMBER 2024 WRITING AND READING I did some writing but a lot more reading. Reading: I read a doorstopper of a book called 'Dominion' by Tom Holland, about how Christianity has...
THE FUTURE IS TITCHMARSH
THE FUTURE IS TITCHMARSH A DISCOVERY On Bank Holiday Monday 2024 my wife Linda and I were coming down from a fascinating and intense weekend at the Greenbelt Festival, https://www.greenbelt.org.uk. We were driving through the surprisingly beautiful Northamptonshire...
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