If you vote for Jack he promises to resign… by Jack Hoehn, June 17, 2015: “Hello, I was thinking of running for the office of President of the General Conference next month in San Antonio, and was wondering if I could count on your support?” Motivated by the excitement in American political parties for the office […]
by Jack Hoehn, May 29, 2015: The first female author may be the “violet-haired, pure, honey-smiling Sappho,”[1] a poetess considered during her lifetime and for generations later one of the 10 greatest poets. From the Island of Lesbos she wrote love poems that resonated with her contemporaries and many generations afterwards. Sadly, now only fragments […]
English Bibles have a mistranslation that needs to be corrected. By Jack Hoehn Humans usually have 24 ribs. The ribs come from the 12 thoracic vertebra (back bones) and provide support and protection for the chest and its contents. The top 7 pair are attached by cartilage directly to the sternum (breast bone) in the […]
Sometimes SDA medical missionaries get into difficult situations. Dr. James Appel and his wife, Sarah, have had to bury a child in Chad, due to malaria. But sometimes a child can save the parents, and this time their 5-month-old son Isak (left) rescued the whole family (James, Sarah, Miriam, Noah, Isak) just by being a baby. Here is the story, for a smile. Jack Hoehn […]
How about B12, D3, Natural E, and what Jesus fixed for breakfast? And how long should we live in a world far from the Tree of Life? There are worse things than dying. By Jack Hoehn (John B. Hoehn, M.D.) He was a retired pastor and was once the president of an SDA Conference. His […]
by Jack Hoehn, March 11, 2015: So no more speculation and hypothesizing. Let’s do a little nature study in the Bible. Corvus corax Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Matthew 6:26 Consider the ravens: They do […]
by Jack Hoehn, February 25, 2015: What happened on Mount Moriah? Immoral religion, or immortal revelation? Why Worship This God? (Detail of a ceiling fresco by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1729, Udine, Italy) You can admire, respect, appreciate, long for, hope for God, in the absence of final evidence. And most humans do. Even atheists […]
[Last of a three part series.] by Jack Hoehn, February 13, 2015: What to Do with a Deceased Prophetess – [Part 1 of this series discussed the world Ellen White was born into and ministered in. Part 2 of this series discussed the aging and death of Ellen White, and the steps taken by her […]
What to Do with a Deceased Prophetess? [Part 2 of a three part series.] By Jack Hoehn, February 4, 2015: [Part 1 of this series attempted to show the kind of world Ellen Gould (Harmon) White was born into. It was more like a 3rd world country than it was like the USA of today. […]
What to Do with a Deceased Prophetess? Part 1 of a three part series by Jack Hoehn, January 27, 2015: The world fraternal twins Elizabeth and Ellen Harmon were born into on November 26, 1827, was more like a third world country than the USA of today, according to Daniel Walker Howe[1] in the Oxford […]
by Jack Hoehn, December 26, 2014: Jack hears a word from the Lord on Capitol Hill. The Beautiful Capitol Hill SDA Church, Washington DC Washington DC I consider Washington, DC a Disneyland for adults. It is so full of marble and pillars and monuments and vistas and parks and parades and pomp and circumstance and […]
by Jack Hoehn, December 17, 2014: Dear Readers, Christ-mas is a religious celebration of sacrifice, a mass. Whilst Christ’s enwombed birth elevated and ennobles our species as nothing else does, It is His life relinquished to cleanse human sin That warms with dark red saltiness The coldest days and darkest nights of our winters. Merry […]
