by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 13, 2020 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Movies, Politics, Science, Suffering
John Swinton, Professor of Practical Theology and Pastoral Care in the University of Aberdeen, in his book on Dementia writes, The problem of forgetfulness is not confined to the individual with dementia. The experience of dementia brings to the fore a broader amnesia...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 29, 2020 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering
Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels invented the immortal Stuldbrugs of the flying island of Laputa. Gulliver supposed they would be wise, serene and knowledgeable because of their great age, and instead found them the most miserable of creatures, excruciatingly...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 18, 2020 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Morality, Suffering, Witness
I have in my library a signed first edition of The Message of Galatians by John Stott, which he gave me for my birthday in 1970 (50 years ago). It contains twenty sermons he preached on Galatians in 1965-66. His book on preaching was published under the title Between...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 30, 2020 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World
The Course of Empire: Desolation, Thomas Cole (1801-1848). In 2012 I visited the Columbia, South Carolina Museum of Art to view 45 paintings of the Hudson River School of Painters on loan from the New York Historical Society. The magnificent landscapes of Thomas Cole,...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 14, 2020 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Islam, Jesus, Reading, Suffering, The World
Handel uses four psalms in his oratorio The Messiah. Psalm 22:7,8 is used to describe the religious leaders’ ridicule of Jesus during his agony on the Cross as quoted in the Gospels. “All they that see him laugh him to scorn: they shoot out their lips, and shake their...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 13, 2020 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Ministry, Morality, Movies, Politics, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World
On March 8, 1983, President Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union, the “evil empire” in a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando. He said: “They preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man and predict its...
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