Local Adventist health enthusiast Gus Beanz has declared that his vegetarian diet produces what he calls “holier emissions.” “It’s simple, really,” Beanz explained, barely containing his excitement. “If we’re supposed to be temples of the Holy Spirit, then everything that comes out of us should be holy too, right?” Beanz, who has been a strict […]
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 […]
“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 […]
by Jack Hoehn | 31 July 2024 | It was 2:30 am when from sound sleep I suddenly awoke with a feeling of anxiety, terror, and pounding in my chest I had never experienced before. In dark seconds I changed from doctor to patient. My most valued core organ was demanding attention. When our digestive […]
by Jack Hoehn | 26 June 2024 | Unseen powers are in the body. They are placed there in anticipation of problems by God’s foresight. Vaccination Until 1973 every child in Canada and the USA and much of the rest of the world was offered smallpox vaccination by scratching the skin with a needle and […]
Not your brain, not your lungs, not your bones—your skin. Most of our pleasure, our greatest protection, a vitamin factory, our ability to survive heat and cold, and such beauty as we are permitted, indeed is truly “skin deep.” by Jack Hoehn | 15 May 2024 | There is no you without your skin. This […]
If life is intelligently designed, with forethought, planning, purposeful, meaningful, are diseases intelligently designed, planned, purposeful too? Do we need more or less religion? Do we need more or fewer doctors? by Jack Hoehn | 17 April 2024 | There are many things that attack and end life. Here are 20, plus a few more, […]
The chemical and cellular basis of life. by Jack Hoehn | 6 March 2024 | The editing of the King James Bible (KJV) was not done by manuscript with red pencil marks of the text for corrections or edits, and of course not on a computer screen like the one I am using to write […]
We all want to be healthy. But what is health? by Jack Hoehn | 14 February 2024 | In my last essay in this series, we agreed that though it is easy to see that something is alive, it is not that easy to exactly define life. So let’s move on from asking what life […]
“Alive” is easy to recognize but hard to define. by Jack Hoehn The difference between an apple tree and a fence post, or a rabbit and a brick, is that one of those is alive and one is not. But what we can quickly recognize is not easy to define. What exactly is life? The […]
by Jack Hoehn | 11 January 2024 | Science can bring us to worship the presence of God. Glorifying or worshiping God in our bodies may be familiar because of Adventist health teachings—don’t smoke, drink, eat pigs or between meals—because your body is God’s Temple. But there is a grander possibility for worshiping of God […]