Those with long memories or an interest in elderly archives may remember that back in 2002 I began studying with the Open University, with the vague idea that perhaps I might do enough courses to get a degree. In the last four years I’ve acquired a passable ability to read Latin. I’ve learned that writing [...]
Today I got the results of the Open University Courses that I studied this last year – AD317 (Religion Today, Tradition, Modernity and Change) and A297 (Reading Classical Latin). I’m very happy to have got good passes for both subjects. I had convinced myself I had failed the Latin exam and was even looking at [...]
I’m looking in some depth at the ‘real’, historical figure of Jesus, and seem to be opening up more questions than I find answers for. Most historians believe (as there is documentary proof) that there was a historical Jesus. The people and places mentioned in the New Testament are real enough – although some of [...]
The observant will have noticed another new section in the navigation. I’ve set up another journal in order to discuss some of the themes that I will be studying this year in my course on World Religions with the Open University. While moving things around I’ve moved the articles to a link within the blog [...]