by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 16, 2018 | Aging, Faith, Healing, Inspiration, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World
John Baillie (1886-1960), Scottish theologian is the author of A DIARY OF PRIVATE PRAYER, which has sold over a million copies and has been a favorite of mine. Here is one of his prayers which I have treasured and made my own over the years. Almighty and most merciful...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 9, 2018 | Healing, Jesus, Politics, Suffering, The World
Amos William Dowell, age 22, in 1914 One hundred years ago, at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, November 11, 1918, World War I (aka the Great War) ended. There will be centenary anniversary celebrations in France and elsewhere. The war...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 5, 2018 | Atheism, Faith, Politics, Prayer, The World
Irina Ratushinskaya (1954-2017) was a Ukrainian poet who was tried and imprisoned during the 1980’s for anti-Soviet activity. Her crime was to write poetry from a Christian perspective. She was not raised as a Christian, and had no access to Christian literature or a...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 2, 2018 | Faith, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Worship
All Souls’ Day, November 2, (also known as the Day of the Dead in the South-West and Mexico) commemorates all the faithful departed. My first church in London was called All Souls Church. This year it is appropriate to remember the eleven victims of the massacre at...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 20, 2018 | Morality, Movies, Reading, Sexuality, Suffering, The World
I have been reading the novels and stories of Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) and have been fascinated by his insight into the psychology of his characters. Zweig was an Austrian who knew and appreciated Sigmund Freud and his theories of the unconscious. His knowledge of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 28, 2018 | Bible, Church, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World, Witness
September 29 in the Christian Calendar is St. Michael and All Angels Day. It marks the beginning of the academic year in the United Kingdom with Michaelmas Term. It will always be a special day for me because on that day in 1967 I was ordained to the Christian...
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