by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 21, 2017 | Bible, Church, Faith, Jesus, Morality, Suffering, Witness
Portrait of American orator, editor, author, abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895), 1850s. Engraving by A. H. Ritchie. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) During the summer the news was full of the controversy over the Confederacy and...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 9, 2017 | Bible, Church, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Reading, Witness
During the summer I have been working on gathering together my unpublished material to put in a book to commemorate the 50th anniversary of my ordination to the ministry. I was ordained at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London on September 29, 1967, the Feast of St. Michael...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 22, 2017 | Church, Inspiration, Ministry, Politics, Witness, Worship
While on vacation in London I visited the National Portrait Gallery. I was impressed by a series of cartoons of William E. Gladstone, British politician and Prime Minister during Queen Victoria’s reign. The cartoonist showed Gladstone giving speeches in the House of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 5, 2017 | Church, Ministry, Witness, Worship
On the Holy Spirit, Basil the Great, Bishop of Caesarea 379 AD. The titles given to the Holy Spirit most surely stir the soul of anyone who hears them, and make one realize that they speak of nothing less than the supreme Being. Is he not called the Spirit of God, the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 31, 2017 | Atheism, Church, Faith, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World
Some years ago I became familiar with the 1980 Nobel prizewinning poet Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004). I began to collect his books of essays and poems. Recently I read his biography by Andrzej Franaszek edited and translated from the Polish by Aleksandra and Michael...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 25, 2017 | Church, Jesus, Ministry, The World, Worship
The Ascension of Jesus – Rembrandt Today is Ascension Day – forty days after the resurrection Jesus ascended to heaven to assume his place in the Godhead, interceding for us and taking our humanity with him (Acts 1:1-11). We are connected to him in the Body of...
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