by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 9, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Reading
As I look back on my life I must have been a very idealistic adolescent. While I devoured the usual boy’s comic books such as Eagle, Rover, Classics Illustrated and many others, I also haunted the local public library housed in a Carnegie building and read...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 30, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Faith, God, Jesus, Morality, Reading
I don’t like surprises. I like to know what is going to happen in my life so that I can adequately prepare for it. Whenever something unexpected happens I get undone by it. When somebody springs something unexpected on me, presents me with an issue or agenda item that...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 28, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Faith, God, Morality, Movies, Politics, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World
WE HAVE CEASED TO SEE THE PURPOSE, is the title of ten of the essential speeches of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, edited by his son Ignat Solzhenitsyn which has just been published by the University of Notre Dame Press. His Nobel Lecture in 1972 focuses on the necessity of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 14, 2025 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Reading, Sexuality, The World, Witness, Worship
One of my prized possessions is a first edition copy of God’s New Society by John Stott. It is inscribed: “Ted and Antoinette, with love, gratitude and good wishes, John. Christmas 1979” In his introduction he writes: The letter to the Ephesians is a marvelously...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 15, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Morality, Science, Sexuality
One of our most cherished possessions is a first edition of Christ the Controversialist by John Stott. Published in February 1970 it is inscribed to my wife: “Antoinette for her confirmation in St. Paul’s Cathedral, London on 28th February 1970, with all good wishes,...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 3, 2025 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Islam, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Science, Sexuality, Suffering
This is a review of WASTE LAND: A WORLD IN PERMANENT CRISIS by Robert D. Kaplan. I am a fan of his books as I have read many over the years. But this one paints a depressing view of the world and our future. He is Jewish but lacks a religious perspective. His view of...
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