by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 27, 2022 | Aging, Church, Faith, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Witness, Worship
At this time of the year when St. Michael and All Angels Day falls I remember that day fifty-five years ago when on September 29, 1967 I was ordained to the Gospel ministry in St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. The historic Christopher Wren cathedral was filled...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 24, 2022 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
Enlightenment thinkers in the eighteenth century understood the world through the lens of experimental science. Believing that all phenomena operated according to universal natural laws, they judged every intellectual proposition according to the test of reason. Their...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 14, 2022 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Witness, Worship
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” (Matthew 5:4) The National Days of Mourning in the United Kingdom for the death of Queen Elizabeth II as covered on television are a salutary reminder of the need for a solemn period of grieving on the death...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 28, 2022 | Abortion, Atheism, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
I have been reading Soren Kierkegaard’s “Practice in Christianity” and commentaries about it. He wrote it in 1849 as a critique of how Christianity was presented in the Church of Denmark. In particular he criticized the preaching of his bishop who influenced a...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 10, 2022 | Aging, Church, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, The World, Witness, Worship
One of the temptations of old age is to think of yourself as having no value. People don’t know who you are or what you have done with your life. You do not feel productive and valuable as you used to be. You are not sought out or asked to contribute as you were in...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 16, 2022 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Prayer, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
All Saints Church, Hokitika, where I was baptized. I retired from my working career at age seventy-seven. I have not retired from my spiritual vocation. My spiritual vocation is life-long. What is it? In the words of my baptism in the Book of Common Prayer: “I shall...
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