The Plague is Coming Again

The Plague is Coming Again

When I first wrote this blog, I had hope. It would only last for a month and then not come back for 17 years. Sigh. Unfortunately, starting next month, it’ll become something of a tradition—every day I will go into the garden and check for cicadas. At first,...
Alternative Medicine and the Christian

Alternative Medicine and the Christian

I recently heard a preacher challenge the congregation about idolatry—using their checkbook as an example. Totally valid. After all, we do tend to trust our money will keep us safe, buy us happiness, and more. Interestingly enough, nobody got up and stormed out;...
Alternative Medicine: Not Good News

Alternative Medicine: Not Good News

And now…it’s time for some SCIENCE! I do have to get back to planning book tours, but first, I am seriously disturbed by how innocent people, who are suffering in all kinds of horrific manners, are scammed by alternative medicine. Dr. David Gorsky, MD, who has been...
Seeing God in the Tiny Things: DNA

Seeing God in the Tiny Things: DNA

Sometimes, when I was teaching, I was tempted to break into praise. I didn’t do it. After all, that’s a sure path to losing a job that I really enjoyed. In past years, I taught cell biology at a four-year college, beginning anatomy and physiology and microbiology at a...
Cells: One of my Favorite Things

Cells: One of my Favorite Things

Just the other day, I was singing in the car with my six-year-old granddaughter. I am pretty sure you know the song: My Favorite Things from The Sound of Music. Finding myself getting choked up, I told sweet Madeleine that sometimes pretty music makes me cry. “Me...
Can Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Cure You?

Can Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Cure You?

A revolutionary new treatment for diabetes, asthma, autism, PTSD, cerebral palsy, AIDS, heart disease, aging, learning disabilities, Alzheimer’s, arthritis, alcoholism, multiple sclerosis, hair loss, impotence, and more has come to my attention. It can even restore...