by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 22, 2020 | Abortion, Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World
During the past couple of months I have been studying Dante’s Divine Comedy. It is composed of three books: Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradisio in Italian and Hell, Purgatory and Heaven in English. Dorothy Sayers has been my guide in the Penguin Classics series. She...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 14, 2020 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
Over the years the book of Revelation has become a favorite of mine. I believe that its message is perennially relevant to our lives and times. I believe that it is what it claims to be: a revealing or prophecy of what is really taking place, in the present and the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 14, 2020 | Politics, The World
During this primary presidential election season and the rhetoric it encourages for and against the political parties and their leaders there is the tendency to bemoan the current state of our divisions and to lay claim that it has gotten worse. Alexander Hamilton in...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 13, 2018 | Politics, Reading, Suffering, The World
I am reading through Ron Chernow’s biography of Ulysses S. Grant. Chernow never disappoints me. I have read his biographies of Washington and Hamilton. His Grant is well worth slogging through over 900 pages. With the current hysteria about how bad things are in...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 1, 2016 | Faith, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Sexuality, Suffering, The World
Alan Torrance, professor of systematic theology at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, engages the apostle Paul in a response to his letter to the Colossians. Dear Paul, So let me get this right! Everything is created through Christ, is held together in Christ...
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