Schroeder’s Corner

The Opportunity For The Unqualified

California suffers two great illnesses.  One, because it’s “Hollywood” they think image matters more than reality  Two, the Democrat majority have rendered elections seemingly uncompetitive for Republicans and taken monopolistic control.  That’s…

Iran – A Nation Held Hostage

Going into the negotiations this past weekend everyone said the Islamists ostensibly in charge in Iran only had two negotiating levers – their pile of nuclear junk, unusable at the moment but dangerous to leave them with, and the Strait of…

War Returns – How To Pray

Negotiations failed.  No surprise there.  The war will undoubtedly resume shortly.  And we’re all headed to church.  How do we pray about this? There is a very famous scene in the movie “Patton” in which the general asks the chaplain to pray for…

A Time For Choosing – The Hugh Hewitt Show

We are in a post-Christian era, no doubt.  But in recent years the church has moved from simply being viewed as irrelevant to being viewed as dangerous and has come under active attack.  I wrote about it Tuesday and again yesterday.  In both…

The Greatest Tragedy?

On Tuesday I wrote about how young people seem to be migrating from mainline protestant churches to Catholicism.  I analyzed the trend in terms of an outlook to personal salvation and evangelicalism.  Among hardcore Evangelicals there is a term,…

About The Ceasefire – The Hugh Hewitt Show

I find it impossible to make much sense out of things right now.  The ceasefire is apparently based on the immediate opening of the Straits of Hormuz, but from what I can tell at the moment, they are not all that “open” at this juncture about 10…

Everything Old is New Again

If you are old enough, as I am, to remember the Apollo space program then watching Artemis II circle the moon yesterday came with an odd sense of déjà vu.  Sure the lunar orbit was larger, hence the distance from Earth was farther, sure this…

The One Way To Understand Easter

He is Risen!  He is Risen Indeed!  It is a cry that changed the world. We literally measure time by it, before and after.  But why did the world have to change to begin with? Years ago I wrote: In point of fact, if we shift our focus but a bit,…