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...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 17, 2017 | Bible, Church, Faith, Ministry, Politics, Suffering
SPEAKING OF DYING: RECOVERING THE CHURCH’S VOICE IN THE FACE OF DEATH, Fred Craddock, Dale Goldsmith, and Joy V. Goldsmith PREACHING ON DEATH AND DYING Is death a subject appropriate for the pulpit? Should a sermon about death be preached when no one is dead, at...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 9, 2017 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering
This is the fourth in the series of summaries from SPEAKING OF DYING: RECOVERING THE CHURCH’S VOICE IN THE FACE OF DEATH, Fred Craddock, Dale Goldsmith, and Joy V. Goldsmith. This from the chapter: WHAT DO YOU SAY TO SOMEONE WHO IS DYING? Where and when do we in the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 2, 2017 | Church, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering, Witness
Continuing my class on the Christian attitude to dying, here is my summary of the chapter from SPEAKING OF DYING: RECOVERING THE CHURCH’S VOICE IN THE FACE OF DEATH, Fred Craddock, Dale Goldsmith, and Joy V. Goldsmith: THE DIFFERENCE JESUS’S DYING MAKES How does a...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 18, 2017 | Aging, Atheism, Church, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering
I am leading a class on the Christian attitude to dying using material from SPEAKING OF DYING: RECOVERING THE CHURCH’S VOICE IN THE FACE OF DEATH, Fred Craddock, Dale Goldsmith, and Joy V. Goldsmith I expected a half dozen or so participants and forty three turned up....
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