ILLUSTRATED LECTURE: HITLER’S MOUNTAIN
By Peter Longley Hitler’s retreat in the mountains of Bavaria was one of the most important centresof government in the Third Reich. Hitler actually spent more time in the Berghof,his mountain house, than in his Berlin office. It was in this oversized chalet thatHitler planned the invasions of Poland, France and Russia and the events […]
A KELSEY
I took a walk in Kelsey Park today. The park was busy and love was in the air, but not just because it was Valentine’s Day, but because the sun came out! After endless grey days of drizzling rain, blue skies with little puffy white clouds gliding across our landscape gave us a beautiful day. […]
UKRAINE – An Unnecessary Tragedy
By Peter Longley We are at a very dangerous time in the alignment of world powers all sparked by a relatively insignificant border struggle between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. But, remember, it was the relatively insignificant assassination of an Austrian Archduke in the Balkans that started the First World War, and it can be […]
THE THEOLOGY OF DOUBT
I have asked myself many times why I still care for the church when I have by my own definition become divorced from many of its dogmas, doctrines and beliefs. Now an octogenarian, I look back on my life and often ask myself if I could have lived it differently. People are envious. I lived […]
Eton Mess or Brexit Fall Out? – The Ukraine Crisis
By Peter Longley Is Europe on the brink of war? Have we taken a gigantic step backwards? I wonder. We could be dragged into a long struggle with Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation in which nobody will be the winner, least of all Ukraine. This is not 1938 all over again as Europe sat on the […]
Why I still go to Church?
Since the age of nine I have been driven by a force beyond my control that I call a vocation. I lay it at the feet of a visionary experience that I perceived quite out of the blue while away at a boys’ preparatory school on the south coast of Sussex in 1954. I took […]
The Importance of India in the trade routes of the First Century AD and the mystery of a tomb of Jesus in Northern India
By Peter Longley I am a writer of historical Fiction, but these days, like so many, I am constantly battling the current debate about this genre. Outside crime and memoir, historical fiction is possibly the most enjoyed form of fiction on the market these days, but nonetheless it faces the scrutiny of the purists. Can […]
APOLOGIA – A personal Assessment of my Faith
By Peter Longley, M.A. (Cantab) Vocation defines many people’s lives from a very early age lasting until their deaths. It might be inspired by a close family connection, whereby a medical doctor’s child believes it is his or her destiny to also be a medical practitioner, or a professional footballer might have a child who […]
THE SOUND OF SILENCE
By Peter Longley I was sent the following article by a good friend the other day. It appeared in the Springfield News-Leader, a local newspaper of Springfield, Missouri that until relatively recently was my home in the USA. Searching for the sound of silence Last week, my wife, Becky, and I took a bargain […]
The Miracle of Birth – An Examination of the Christmas Story
By Peter Longley The other day after the Wednesday 10:30 a.m. Holy Communion service I was asked if I thought Jesus was dyslexic. This set me thinking of what we know and don’t know about Jesus. I can’t comment on whether he was dyslexic for complete lack of evidence, but the question did lead me […]