by Jack Hoehn | 19 March 2025 | “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!” Ezekiel 37:4 Photographs of the creation of the elements used for life are coming to computers near you from the James Webb space telescope. This photograph is Orion, a constellation beloved […]
by Jack Hoehn | 19 February 2025 | The book of 1st Esdras tried to be in the Bible (it’s in the Apocrypha by an “Ezra” that sits between the Old Testament and New Testament in some Bibles). It claims that the rebuilding of Jerusalem and its temple happened because three of Persian Emperor Darius’s […]
The Widening of God’s Mercy—Sexuality Within the Biblical Story. Christopher B. Hays and Richard B. Hays, Yale University Press (2024). Reviewed by Jack Hoehn I was introduced to this new book by a critical review in First Things magazine, a publication that prides itself on supporting Christian traditions, including male headship, fetal personhood, and gender inflexibility. […]
by Jack Hoehn | 22 January 2025 | Living things move. (That is why this magazine is called “Adventist Today”—because living faiths have to keep moving too.) Living plants and animals are not only moved by gravity, but they move against gravity. Movement is work and requires energy. Mechanically the combustion of the sun’s energy […]
“It’s just a simple tube?” by Jack Hoehn | 18 December 2024 | A newborn’s first job is to find some oxygen, the second is to find a nipple. Little puppies and little people expend their first newborn energy looking for something to eat. I’ve read several articles on the digestive system that begin with […]
by Jack Hoehn | 17 December 2024 | There can be no doubt about it: December 25 was once a pagan holiday, the birthday of the Sun god, Sol Invictus, from his winter nap—the shortest winter day that starts the gradual return of longer days, the winter solstice. So let’s celebrate the end of winter and […]
by Jack Hoehn | 27 November 2024 | “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands… Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything…” (Acts 17:24,25) People take oxygen (O2) for granted because it […]
by Jack Hoehn | 30 October 2024 | I remember the days of old. I ponder all your great works and think about what you have done. I lift my hands to you in prayer. I thirst for you as parched land thirsts for rain. Come quickly, Lord, and answer me, for my depression deepens. […]
“Blood is a most magical juice.” (from Johan Wolfgang Goethe’s Faust, “Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft.”) by Jack Hoehn | 9 October 2024 | Blood demands respect. The Biblical “life of the flesh” was in the blood, and Jews were commanded not to eat it. Ties to other humans can hardly be closer than […]
“The universe [is] shot through with appalling threads—violence, slaughter, sickness, and pain.” [1] by Jack Hoehn | 18 September | It is incontrovertible that we live in a great controversy. Life and health are under constant attack. How can we keep body temples safe for worship? It seems that some have learned how to avoid […]
by Jack Hoehn | 12 September 2024 | What are the politics of conscience? On the sidewalk outside of your church, have you heard things like this? “Surely every Seventh-day Adventist must vote in favor of life? How can we do anything but hold our noses and vote for politicians we may not like—but who […]
“Please wash your hands” is a present truth. But why do germs exist, and why do we have so many? Aren’t bacteria bad? by Jack Hoehn | 21 August 2024 | There is a world you cannot see without a microscope. But a drop of pond water on a microscope can show us an autonomous […]
