by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 6, 2025 | Abortion, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Islam, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Movies, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
Sohrab Ahmari has had a fascinating life. Born and raised in Iran, where his parents were part of the secular professional class, he rejected the Islamic faith of the mullahs with its censorious condemnation of daily life. He found its teaching and practice full of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 3, 2025 | Abortion, Bible, Faith, God, Inspiration, Islam, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Reading, Worship
In an interview David McCullough lamented the lack of sense of our history today after a student from a prestigious college remarked that she did not realize that all the original thirteen colonies were on the east coast! One summer my wife and I drove to Maryland to...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 26, 2025 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World
Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) wrote a dystopian novel, LORD OF THE WORLD, in 1907. It has become well-known in our day through being rediscovered and commended by Popes Francis and Leo. Despite it being written more than a century ago it imagines a world of rapid...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 22, 2025 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Science, Suffering, The World, Worship
David Wilkinson is unique in that he is both a scientist and a Christian theologian. He can survey a massive amount of material to present a masterful argument for the way in which God can act in our lives. While the first chapter is a challenge to those with an...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 18, 2025 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Islam, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, The World
Recently a pastor friend of mine wrote to me about people in his congregation who were interpreting Revelation 20 in terms of the Israel-Iran war. Years ago I wrote about this issue when a similar situation arose in geopolitics. I visited Israel in 1965 when the West...
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...
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