Transfusion!
Each year, an estimated 6.8 million people in the U.S. donate blood, and 13.6 million units (almost that many pints = almost half that amount in liters) of whole blood and red blood cells are collected in the U.S. in a year.
But it may not be just blood and blood products that are passed on. Some scientists are starting to ask whether something unexpected may be transmitted at the same time as the blood transfusion.
Five years ago, for example, a study by Geneva University
Mother?
When one of her kids call, Tammy Kumin comes running, no matter what the time is, day or night. Like any good mom
Except, she isn’t the actual mother of the kids she mothers 24-7. She’s simply their “rent-a-mom””!
I’m a mom away from mom—a total support system for students.”
Ms. Kumin, now in her seventies, and the biological parent of three and grandmother of six from Boston, is the founder of Concierge Service for Students (CSS).
She does it all—emergency
Occult!
In ye olde city of Exeter, in South West England, in the late 1800s three women were hanged for apparently engaging in witchcraft—the last of such executions in England.
A short walk from where the hangings occurred, the University of Exeter is now offering a “postgraduate degree in magic and occult science,” the first of its kind at a British university. The fascination with magic and the occult has permeated digital platforms, especially among the younger, less
1 Timothy 1:12–20
God’s superabounding grace appoints believers—once sinners, now mercifully saved—into service, to discharge their ministries faithfully.
Paul begins this section exulting with gratitude for divine strengthening, for being considered faithful, for being appointed to service (1:12); for God’s showing of mercy (1:13, 16); for the superabounding of grace along with faith and love in Christ (1:14); and for the demonstration of divine patience in Paul (1:16). The entirety
Water?
A 25-year-old woman from Fresno is allergic to water. Yes, you read right: to water. Allergic. And that means even from her own tears and sweat, she breaks out in welts and hives.
Tessa Hansen-Smith confessed:
I would come out of showers and have huge welts on my skin, and my scalp would be bleeding after showering.”
She’s been suffering from this condition, called aquagenic urticaria, since she was 8 years old.
Declared the National Institutes of Health’s Genetics and
Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.