by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 5, 2017 | Inspiration, Movies, Politics, The World
After going to see the movie, DUNKIRK, and being rather depressed by it I decided to read THE MIRACLE OF DUNKIRK, by Walter Lord. This is the definitive account of what happened in May 1940. If you want to know the true and whole story of what happened I commend this...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 1, 2017 | Inspiration, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World
Hillbilly Elegy is the second most read nonfiction book on Amazon and has been on the list for eleven weeks. J.D. Vance has written a compelling and eye-opening memoir that is stirring up a lot of controversy. A product of hillbilly Tennessee and Ohio J.D. maintains...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 26, 2017 | Inspiration, Morality, Politics, Reading, Suffering, The World
In The Vanishing American Adult, U.S. Senator Ben Sasse, Ph.D. in American history from Yale writes, “I believe our entire nation is in the midst of a collective coming-of-age crisis without parallel in our history. We are living in an America of perpetual...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 28, 2017 | Atheism, Faith, Islam, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Science, Sexuality, Witness
Karl Marx I have become more convinced that the greatest threat to Christianity in the West is not Islam but atheism. More and more younger people are responding to censuses as “No Religion” or “Nones”. They have naively absorbed the secular teaching of the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 22, 2017 | Church, Inspiration, Ministry, Politics, Witness, Worship
While on vacation in London I visited the National Portrait Gallery. I was impressed by a series of cartoons of William E. Gladstone, British politician and Prime Minister during Queen Victoria’s reign. The cartoonist showed Gladstone giving speeches in the House of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 31, 2017 | Atheism, Church, Faith, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World
Some years ago I became familiar with the 1980 Nobel prizewinning poet Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004). I began to collect his books of essays and poems. Recently I read his biography by Andrzej Franaszek edited and translated from the Polish by Aleksandra and Michael...
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