NEWSLETTER MAY 2026
Deck chairs in Hyde Park NEWSLETTER MAY 2026 My writing life Writing etc. May started with me giving a talk on ‘Easter and Pentecost - the untold stories’. About a dozen came. It was a genial evening, helped by wine and cheese. Two copies of my...
NEWSLETTER APRIL 2026
Andy in the London Wetlands
NEWSLETTER March 2026
MY WRITING LIFE March 2026 Writing Again, no writing! Energy mostly consumed with tech problems (see below). I did do one public talk on ‘What the Church does not say about Holy Week’. Three things: first Jesus occupation of the Outer Court...
Jesus and Politics
After Herod’s death the various claimants journeyed to Rome to have Augustus decide on the succession.
JESUS AND MONEY
“Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of heaven…
A SAINT FOR ADVENT
A SAINT FOR ADVENT JOHN OF THE CROSS ADVENT, REALLY? I once knew a priest who worked at St Paul’s cathedral. He enjoyed smoking a pipe and one Christmas Eve went down to his tobacconist in one of the side streets. The shop had not one item of Christmas...
NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER
MY WRITING LIFE NOVEMBER 2025 WRITING Not much writing this November. I went on a two day retreat at my regular monastery at Crawley Down in Sussex and used their library to read about the Councils of Nicaea (325) and Ephesus (431). It was a useful...
GETTING TO GRIPS WITH MARY
‘It is indeed right to bless you Mary, the most pure and ever-blessed Mother of Christ our God …
NEWSLETTER SEPT + OCT
MY WRITING LIFE SEPTEMBER + OCTOBER 2025 WRITING Out of the 61 days of these two months, I only had 21 days for writing. (I don’t write on weekends). So apart from getting the second part of my ‘Was Jesus an Entrepreneur?’ out, I wrote the chapter on the Church...
LIFE WITHOUT MY IPHONE
LIVING AN UNCONNECTED LIFE ARRIVAL IN ROME Back in April my wife Linda gave me the most marvellous birthday present: two and a half weeks together in Italy, staying at Rome, the Amalfi coast and Capri. We flew out towards the end of September and got the...
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