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The prevalent theory about planets is that they neatly spin through space chained to their suns. Now scientist suspect that there may be many free-floating planets roaming the galaxy. Astronomers now say they think they have detected a roaming planet roughly the size of Earth. The planet was discovered…

Between November 2019 and February 2020, scientists watching the distant star Betelgeuse (pronounced Beetle juice) believed they were observing the beginning of the final days of the red supergiant star. The star dimmed dramatically, and astronomers thought the massive sun was about to explode and become…

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest starts in the sky. It forms the right shoulder of the constellation Orion and is 650 light years from Earth. It is a large star, about 15 times more massive than our sun. Astronomers tell us that Betelgeuse is dying. The ninth brightest star in the sky in October has…

Astronomers examining the color of the Milky Way Galaxy have found that it has a very appropriate name. Researchers have wondered what our home galaxy looks like from the outside, but have found the task a challenge because earth is inside it. Speaking at the 219th American Astronomical Society meeting,…

I recently read a moving story that David Jeremiah wrote about the founder of World Vision, the international Christian relief agency. Bob Pierce had advanced leukemia, but he went to visit a colleague in Indonesia before he died. As they were walking through a small village, they came upon a young girl…

Psalm 8 Relational Spirituality Palm 8:3-4 When I consider Your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained; what is man that you take thought of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Wrote the words only a few thousand starts were visible to the unaided…

When Theodore Roosevelt went camping with his friend, naturalist William Beebe, they used to sit under the open sky at night and search for a tiny blob of light near the constellation Pegasus and chant together, “That is the Spiral Galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a…

Coggins, Richard J. "Do We Still Need Deutero-Isaiah?" Journal for the Study of the Old Testament no. 81 (December 1998): 77-92. Do We Still Need Deutero-Isaiah? 1. An Obsolescent Term? To speak of 'Deutero-Isaiah' has become one of the 'assured results of scholarship'. Should we continue to do so? Any…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…