by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 23, 2015 | Faith, Politics, The World
Through In the Garden of the Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin, Erik Larsen has taken the lives of William E. Dodd and his family to tell the story of the beginnings of Hitler’s rise to power. Dodd was appointed by FDR as the American...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 23, 2015 | Faith, Politics, Suffering
Reading Leo Tolstoy’s classic, War and Peace is like feasting at a fifty course banquet. There is so much more in the novel than could ever be captured in the movie version. Apart from the innumerable characters, and the historical events it covers, War and Peace, is...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 18, 2015 | Atheism, Faith, The World
Peter Hitchens is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. A former revolutionary (Trotskyite), he attributes his return to faith largely to his experience of socialism in practice, which he witnessed during his many years reporting in Eastern Europe and his...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 15, 2015 | Aging, Inspiration, Suffering
How do you handle the down times in your lives, when you get discouraged, and feel that you are less productive, more ineffective, and you don’t seem to achieve your goals, or fulfill your agenda? I have come to believe that there is a certain rhythm to life, as there...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 14, 2015 | Faith, Healing, Suffering
I came across a wonderful quote in Dallas Willard’s admirable book, Renovation of the Heart (p.228). “A depressed and hopeless man came to John Wesley to inquire what message he gave to the multitudes of hearers he regularly addressed, morning and evening. Wesley...
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