by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 23, 2021 | Aging, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Science, Suffering, The World
The Christian hope focuses not only on our individual future (the resurrection of the body) but also on our cosmic future (the renewal of the universe). On the whole Christians tend to think and talk too much of an ethereal heaven and too little about the new heaven...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 19, 2021 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Science, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
Your life matters – your life is valuable. Whatever your circumstances, whether you are royalty or commoner, prince or pauper. At the end of St Paul’s magnificent exposition of the truth and reality of the Resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15, after he has presented the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 13, 2021 | Abortion, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness
Paul Tillich, 1886-1965, was a Lutheran theologian who taught at Union Theological Seminary, Harvard Divinity School and the University of Chicago and is known for his book The Courage to Be and his three volume Systematic Theology. He was born and educated in Germany...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 11, 2021 | Atheism, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Movies, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Science, Suffering, Witness, Worship
Thomas, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, was a twin. We don’t hear of his twin, and we know nothing about his childhood. But we know that he also, was always asking questions. He never accepted anything without asking for an explanation. That is what got him a...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 7, 2021 | Aging, Politics, Reading, Science, Suffering
During the last year I have been convinced that the media obsession with COVID-19 and governmental attempts to mitigate it by lockdowns have been driven by hysteria and fear of death which, as a Christian, I reject as unreasonable and damaging. It has been encouraging...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 14, 2021 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Morality, Politics, Science, The World
I came across a review in the Wall Street Journal (March 13-14, 2021) of Probable Impossibilities by Alan Lightman who is an American physicist, writer and social entrepreneur and currently a Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for...
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