HAPPY EASTER!
Easter is the time of renewal for those of the Christian Faith. It is also the true Advent of Spring, the first major holiday weekend for the British people. It is the time when blossom is on the bough, and spring flowers from daffodils to bluebells and primroses, backed by the bright bushes of yellow […]
THE FLAVIAN TRILOGY
Three fascinating novels by Peter Longley STAR OF DESTINY, FISHERS OF MEN and ALONG THE EAGLE’S WAY A story of Mary Magdalene and Christian origins in the First Century AD Discussion groups nationwide have brought themselves to examine the sacred feminine, what was the role of women in Jesus’ world, and what is the true […]
AN APOLOGY FOR DISCERNING COUNTERFEITS
By Peter Longley, MA (Cantab) Author of The Flavian Trilogy Star of Destiny, Fishers of Men and Along the Eagle’s Way The following is based on a reading for meditation from 1 John 4:1-6 found in the daily series Every Day with Jesus. “Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to […]
COULD MARY MAGDALENE BE THE AUTHOR OF THE FOURTH GOSPEL
By Peter Longley, MA (Cantab) Author of Star of Destiny, Fishers of Men and Along the Eagle’s Way (The Flavian Trilogy) Some time ago I read with great interest an article by Ramon Jusino on the subject of Mary Magdalene as the author of the Fourth Gospel. My interest is centered on the fact that […]
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 BLOG – February 2026
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 […]