Author: Sheila Bridge

I am an author, speaker and church leader. This blog began as a support to the books I've published on the subject of looking good and feeling loved. Now it is an expression of my desire for myself and others that they should 'Live Life Loved'. I have written books about Parenthood, Women's roles, as well as a book called 'Who Stole your Sex Life?' and 'How to Feel Good Naked'. The blog is about life, God, fun, books and cycling.

The Man Born to be King

My friend Cathy very helpfully reviews The Man born to be King by Dorothy L Sayers

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Transcendent. Poignant. Stirring. Powerful. Heart-breaking and deeply moving.

I have just read Dorothy L. Sayer’s The Man Born to be King. This is a twelve-play cycle on the life of Jesus Christ, written in 1941 and broadcast on BBC radio. The plays are extra-ordinary. I feel as if I could have been there. Her characterisations are rich, rounded and also true to the Bible. She has added depth, theology, explanation and background to the gospel narratives, and included an ingenious and completely believable solution to the question about why Judas betrayed Jesus. The plays about the passion draw on the chronology of events as suggested by Frank Morrison, in ‘Who Moved the Stone’ – a classic book, and one that means a lot to me. It was the book that first convinced me that the resurrection did truly happen.

The book includes notes on each of the twelve plays. I…

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Be Joyful in Hope

On Wednesday evening as part of our Lent course, a group of us from church studied a passage from Romans 12: 9-21. In the CEV the chapter is entitled 'How to live the new life of Love'. How to... indeed... that is the question. This passage gets really specific. 21 instructions follow one after the... Continue Reading →

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It’s all about the welcome

Yesterday in church we remembered the conversion experience of the apostle Paul. This reflection comes too late for anyone who had to preach yesterday and lacked inspiration. We speak about a  'Damascus Road experience' or about 'seeing the light' to mean a sudden turn around of thinking. A dramatic conversion or change of view. In... Continue Reading →

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A Better Way to Say Sorry

This is an amazingly good post about saying sorry (click link below). It's written by a teacher and talks about how to teach children to say sorry and mean it. Maybe if we were all able to do this there would not be the kind of fear/hate crimes that we have seen in France recently.... Continue Reading →

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Mornings in Jenin – A Book Review

(this review contains no plot spoilers) This is a book that deserves the widest possible reading. It covers the Palestinian - Jewish conflict through the experiences of one family over sixty years beginning before 1948, the establishment of the State of Israel and ending around 2002. The story traces the lives, loves and losses of... Continue Reading →

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When Before became After

In spite of having been an English teacher I never used to like poetry. I think trying to get spotty thirteen year olds to appreciate Coleridge or Keats, ruined it for me (and probably for them). However in the last few years I admit I've been reading it for pleasure. Thank you Alison Farnell, for... Continue Reading →

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