by Jack Hoehn  |  9 September 2021  | Timothy R. Jennings MD is a prominent Chattanooga psychiatrist who graduated from University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine in 1990 and did a psychiatry residency at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Atlanta. He has been especially noted for treating depression with […]

by Jack Hoehn  |  June 11, 2021  | One year ago today, I wrote an article I need to keep rereading. It was published June 20, 2020. It was the response of a white Adventist to the Black Lives Matter movement, and a recognition that all white people have a generational debt from our ancestors that […]

by Jack Hoehn  |  21 January 2021  | What happens with great expectation or with great disappointments? How are Americans reacting to life post-elections?  How are Adventists feeling about our expectations?  Did you know there was once a “Walla Walla Jesus?” The town of Walla Walla and its Seventh-day Adventist Walla Walla University (in the […]

by Jack Hoehn | December 1, 2020 | Adventists have learned the details of the church’s “Health Message” are inspired good advice and not all divine oracle. For some, this has led to discounting many things the church promoted as the “Adventist Lifestyle.” Some Adventist health practices have become universally accepted good advice but the […]

by Jack Hoehn  |  September 24, 2020  | Nothing in the Bible can be more disturbing to the modern reader than being presented with texts about the “anger” or “wrath” of God. While humans are advised by Scripture to “be angry and sin not,” it is difficult for us to hold guiltless anyone, especially an […]

Reviewed by Jack Hoehn  | July 31, 2020 | There are many good people I would like to share this book with. I would love to share it with every young Adventist from high school to doctoral program who loves nature and wants to be a scientist. I would love to share it with every […]

Why are white people like me kept uncomfortably guilty by the jealousy of God. Why must we bear our fathers’ sins? by Jack Hoehn  |  26 June 2020  | I don’t own one of those idiotic KKK headdresses. I have no Confederate flag. My ancestors never kept slaves. Some of my best friends are black. […]

by Jack Hoehn  |  6 May 2020  | Whatever beauty God has bestowed on us is not a gift to us; it is a gift to others. Our stewardship of that measure of handsomeness or beauty we were given is not selfish; it is generous. There were hundreds of wonderful young women when I was […]

by Jack Hoehn  | February 4, 2020 | Unlike the recent House condemnation and Senate exculpation of the American president that was entirely partisan, there are things that both political parties can agree on. The annual defense budget, passed recently by the House (377 to 48) and Senate (82 to 8) has strong support from […]

by Jack Hoehn   |  March 5, 2020  | The COVID-19 epidemic/pandemic is only one of many viral illnesses such as measles, mumps, chickenpox, influenza, cold sores and shingles (Herpes viruses) and HIV/AIDS. As no specific medication is available for COVID-19, and no vaccine will be ready in the near future, it may be useful to […]