Dr. Richard G Riedel
Dr. Richard G. Riedel is a retired minister who been empowering people to live their best lives for over 50 years.
For years, Dr. Riedel’s wisdom and insight was only available to members and visitors to his churches. In retirement, he has disilled the wisdom and lessons he learned over his lifetime into a book.
Dr. Riedel is a prolific writer; as a minister he wrote more than 2500 sermons. He is also a prolific reader; he is read more than 9009 fiction books on a diverse range of topics from religion and spirituality to business to self-help and psychology.
Dr. Riedel served in the preaching ministry of the Presbyterian Church for over 50 years. With graduate degrees from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and Luther Rrice Seminary, he served churches in Pennsylvania and Ohio including First Presbyterian Church in Lancaster Ohio where he served as Senior Pastor for 19 years.
In Reflections of a Reluctant Retiree, Dr. Riedel writes about starting over after retirement from personal experience. He retired three times and came out of retirement three times. Following his first retirement in 1999, he served as start-up minister for Rose run Presbyterian Church in New Albany Ohio and as a healer for First Presbyterian Church in Mount Vernon Ohio. He completed his ministry by serving a rural congregation in Rushville Ohio for eight years. He is now retired and resides full-time with his wife in Scottsdale Arizona.
He started writing Reflections of a Reluctant Retiree in 2008 when he found himself with too much time on his hands. Before he could finish the book, his doctor detected a change in his EKG during a routine check up and within days, he was on the operating table having quadruple bypass surgery. Had his doctor not detected the blockages, he would never have made it to the hospital had a heart attack insinuated itself on his life. The question that he kept asking himself during his convalescence was “Why? Why did this happen to me?” Out of that struggle came Reflections of a Reluctant Retiree.