by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 4, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Reading, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness
When I was in my twenties and ministering to students in London and on the staff of All Souls Church, Langham Place, next to the headquarters of the BBC, I became aware of the concerns of young people as they struggled with their identities, their purpose, their...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 1, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
November 1st has always been celebrated as All Saints’ Day when Christians remember their communion with all the saints, the unity of God’s people in this world and the next. November 2nd is also celebrated as All Souls’ Day when Christians commemorate all the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 31, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels invented the immortal Stuldbrugs of the flying island of Laputa. Gulliver supposed they would be wise, serene and knowledgeable because of their great age, and instead found them the most miserable of creatures, excruciatingly...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 28, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Movies, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
I have recently reread Fyodor Dostoevsky’s (1821-1881) masterpiece and longest novel The Brothers Karamazov, translated from the Russian by Michael R. Katz (2023). Sigmund Freud called it “the most magnificent novel ever written”. This is the third time I have read...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 24, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Reading, Sexuality, Suffering, Witness, Worship
Two books I have read recently have helped me to discipline my mind so that it does not afflict me with negative and unwanted thinking. It is so easy to lay awake at night or to wake up in the morning and find your thoughts swimming in your head into uncharted waters....
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 28, 2025 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Reading
I want to recommend THIRTY STEPS TO HEAVEN, The Ladder of Divine Ascent for All Walks of Life, by Vassilios Papavassiliou. He takes the great spiritual classic, The Ladder of Divine Ascent by John Climacus and adapts it for the modern world and the contemporary...
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