by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 28, 2025 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
Forty days after the resurrection Jesus disappeared! St. Luke wrote that “while he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven.” (Luke 24:51) He vanished from before their very eyes. “A cloud hid him from their sight.” (Acts 1:9) What happened to him...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 23, 2025 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Suffering, The World
I will never forget my first Memorial Day weekend in the USA. That Sunday morning in 1971 after I led the prayers at Christ Church, in Hamilton-Wenham, Massachusetts, I was greeting the worshippers at the door when a lady said to me, “You didn’t mention Memorial Day...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 19, 2025 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Sexuality, The World, Witness
There is much confusion and disagreement over personal morality today. What is good and right and true for one person is not accepted as such by another. People feel that what is good and right and true for them is nobody else’s business. There is no universal...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 13, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Movies, Reading, Science, Sexuality, The World
John Swinton, Professor of Practical Theology and Pastoral Care in the University of Aberdeen, in his book on Dementia writes, The problem of forgetfulness is not confined to the individual with dementia. The experience of dementia brings to the fore a broader amnesia...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 9, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Reading
As I look back on my life I must have been a very idealistic adolescent. While I devoured the usual boy’s comic books such as Eagle, Rover, Classics Illustrated and many others, I also haunted the local public library housed in a Carnegie building and read...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 30, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Faith, God, Jesus, Morality, Reading
I don’t like surprises. I like to know what is going to happen in my life so that I can adequately prepare for it. Whenever something unexpected happens I get undone by it. When somebody springs something unexpected on me, presents me with an issue or agenda item that...
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