In Brief... Worldwide Shift From Country to City
The United Nations recently declared that for the first time in history, "More people in the world live in the town than in the country" (Charles Moore, The Spectator, Feb. 23, 2008).
Rural life has had an enormous impact on humanity throughout the millennia. This monumental change has taken place principally over the last 200 years in the West—and much of the rest of the world has been following.
Charles Moore commented: "What are its effects? A crisis of the great religions, whose language of elemental truth assumes an understanding of what it is to be a good shepherd, to sow and reap, to have murrains of cattle and crops that fail" (ibid.). It's impossible to fully understand many of the illustrations Jesus Christ and His apostles used without a fundamental grasp of these subjects.
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World News and Prophecy: March - April 2008
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John Ross Schroeder
John died on March 8, 2014, in Oxford, England, four days after suffering cardiac arrest while returning home from a press event in London. John was 77 and still going strong.
Some of John's work for The Good News appeared under his byline, but much didn't. He wrote more than a thousand articles over the years, but also wrote the Questions and Answers section of the magazine, compiled our Letters From Our Readers, and wrote many of the items in the Current Events and Trends section. He also contributed greatly to a number of our study guides and Bible Study Course lessons. His writing has touched the lives of literally millions of people over the years.
John traveled widely over the years as an accredited journalist, especially in Europe. His knowledge of European and Middle East history added a great deal to his articles on history and Bible prophecy.
In his later years he also pastored congregations in Northern Ireland and East Sussex, and that experience added another dimension to his writing. He and his wife Jan were an effective team in our British Isles office near their home.
John was a humble servant who dedicated his life to sharing the gospel—the good news—of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God to all the world, and his work was known to readers in nearly every country of the world.
