by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 20, 2018 | Morality, Movies, Reading, Sexuality, Suffering, The World
I have been reading the novels and stories of Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) and have been fascinated by his insight into the psychology of his characters. Zweig was an Austrian who knew and appreciated Sigmund Freud and his theories of the unconscious. His knowledge of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 28, 2018 | Bible, Church, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World, Witness
September 29 in the Christian Calendar is St. Michael and All Angels Day. It marks the beginning of the academic year in the United Kingdom with Michaelmas Term. It will always be a special day for me because on that day in 1967 I was ordained to the Christian...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 11, 2018 | Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World
I have been reading Theodore Dalrymple’s volume of essays entitled, OUR CULTURE, WHAT’S LEFT OF IT. A British psychiatrist and commentator Dalrymple has practiced medicine on four continents, a British inner-city hospital and a prison. In his chapter How To Read A...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 22, 2018 | Church, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Sexuality
The release of a grand jury report on the Roman Catholic clergy sexual abuse over many years in Pennsylvania prompts me to post this diagnosis which I shared three years ago. The question to be asked is why bishops, and others in the world-wide Roman Catholic...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 12, 2018 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Movies, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Witness
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 18, 2018 | Aging, Morality
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), the Roman statesman and philosopher was once asked to address the subject of old age. He had no time for those who complained about their old age. Their fault was one of character, not of years. “Old men who exercise self-discipline,...
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