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 25, 2021 | Aging, Faith, Jesus, Suffering, The World, Witness
“Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.” (Matthew 16:21) William Willimon,...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 20, 2021 | Aging, Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World
If Christ came that we might have life in all its fullness (John 10:10), and our faith in him can make us whole (Mark 5:34; Luke 17:19), how is it that we experience sadness, emotional pain, frustration and unhappiness? Why is it that we have divisions between one...
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...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 21, 2021 | Aging, Atheism, God, Morality, Reading, Science, Worship
Alister McGrath is currently Andreas Idreos professor of science and religion at Oxford University. He earned three doctorates from Oxford University. A Ph.D. for his research in molecular biophysics, a D.D. in historical and systematic theology and a D.Litt. for...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 11, 2021 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Prayer, Suffering, The World
“May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thessalonians 5:23). As I grow older and my body deteriorates I need to remember that I am also spirit and soul. It seems that as we age we spend more time taking care...
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