by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 29, 2015 | Faith, Inspiration, Suffering
What has been your reaction to the turmoil in the stock markets? Have you lost sleep over it? Are you checking the business news all the time? How do you handle the down times in your lives, when you get discouraged, and feel that you are less able to cope than you...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 24, 2015 | Aging, Suffering
Kazuo Ishiguro in The Buried Giant has written a novel that is reminiscent of Tolkien’s The Hobbit. It is the journey of Axl and Beatrice, two elderly Briton’s, to find their son, whom they can hardly remember due to a mist that afflicts post-Arthurian Britain. The...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 23, 2015 | Faith, Jesus, Suffering
On Memorial Day we remember all those who laid down their lives for their country. What do you say to a member of the armed forces, or the police, who have to face death for us every day? German theologian Helmut Thielicke wrote a letter to a soldier who was wounded...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 12, 2015 | Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering, Witness
While reading the autobiography of the famous missionary theologian Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1999) I came across a statement about healing which was prompted by a Nigerian doctor who suggested that the basic unit of healing is not the hospital, it is the Christian...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 25, 2015 | Healing, Ministry, Suffering
Thomas E. Reynolds is father to a son who has been diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome, Asperger’s syndrome, bipolar disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Because of his disability churches they have attended requested that he not be in their Sunday School...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 23, 2015 | Faith, Politics, Suffering
Reading Leo Tolstoy’s classic, War and Peace is like feasting at a fifty course banquet. There is so much more in the novel than could ever be captured in the movie version. Apart from the innumerable characters, and the historical events it covers, War and Peace, is...
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