Squalor!
Recently, journalist Pauline Allione reported in VICE Belgium about filth hoarders.
A decade ago, Bastien, 43 (not his real name), was the type of guy who would meticulously clean his windowsills with a cotton bud. But after experiencing a triple whammy of unemployment, a tough break-up and severe depression, his dedication to cleanliness collapsed.”
Said Bastien himself:
I couldn’t throw anything away; I started piling up rubbish left, right and center. Trash quickly
Clown!
Teddy Amenabar of the Washington Post recently reported on coulrophobia—the extreme and irrational fear of clowns!
Philip John Tyson, associate professor of psychology at the University of South Wales, has been researching phobias, particularly among his students.
At the start of every semester, I ask my students the same question: What are you afraid of?
Students routinely cite spiders, snakes and claustrophobic spaces, but a consistent minority would say they were
Eyes!
Last week it was announced that surgeons in New York had performed the first-ever whole-eye transplant in a human, an accomplishment being hailed as a breakthrough.
The patient was Aaron James, a 46-year-old military veteran from Arkansas who survived a work-related high-voltage electrical accident that destroyed the left side of his face, his nose, his mouth and his left eye.
Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez, who headed the team at NYU Langone Health said:
The mere fact that we transplanted
1 Timothy 2:1–7
Corporate prayer for all people is critically important so that all may be redeemed; such prayers please God by furthering his economy, facilitated by the proclamation and teaching for which his people have been appointed.
First Timothy 2, in general, details how Timothy (and other readers) must execute the command Paul had entrusted to him in 1:18–19. First in importance was to be prayer for all people. Indeed, coming after the redeemability of a Paul (1:12–14), of
Ear!
An interesting case was presented in the New England Journal of Medicine the other day: “A Spider and Its Exoskeleton in the Ear Canal,” by physicians in Tainan Municipal Hospital, Tainan City, Taiwan.
A 64-year-old woman with hypertension presented to an ENT clinic in Taiwan with a 4-day history of abnormal sounds in her left ear that caused her trouble sleeping. On the day of symptom onset, she had awoken to the feeling of a creature moving inside her left ear. Subsequent
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.