by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 22, 2015 | Aging, Faith
James Houston and Michael Parker in their A VISION FOR THE AGING CHURCH, ask which of these two views of aging dominates our churches today? How hard and painful are the last days of an aged man! He grows weaker every day; his eyes become dim, his ears deaf; his...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 19, 2015 | Aging, Church, Inspiration, Ministry
James Houston (emeritus professor of spiritual theology at Regent College in Vancouver) and Michael Parker (associate professor in the School of Social Work and at the Center of Mental Health & Aging at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and adjunct...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 12, 2015 | Aging, Bible, Church, Ministry
Pastoring a congregation where most of the members are retired from their careers I am constantly needing to reflect on what are appropriate expectations for them at their stage in life. We are not preoccupied with children’s or youth ministry, nor with young...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 7, 2015 | Aging, Healing
A letter to the editor of our local daily newspaper begins with this question: “What if God, creator of the universe and each individual in it, loves us just the way we are?” Sounds reasonable doesn’t it? Sounds loving and accepting doesn’t it? But if that is so then...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 24, 2015 | Aging, Suffering
Kazuo Ishiguro in The Buried Giant has written a novel that is reminiscent of Tolkien’s The Hobbit. It is the journey of Axl and Beatrice, two elderly Briton’s, to find their son, whom they can hardly remember due to a mist that afflicts post-Arthurian Britain. The...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 13, 2015 | Aging, Ministry
Since cremation is now becoming more common questions are being raised about its relationship to Christian faith. Cremation was the custom in the Roman society of the first century but by the third century earth burial had replaced cremation as the usual custom. The...
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