HeyJaredJohn Pohl
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Utah Doctoral Student (DoRT), Northwind Seminary Professionally, I'm an academic pediatric gastroenterologist. I'm very interested in research evaluating the intersection of science and religion.
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Passing the Peace at Church (While Reading) (opens the original)
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Short post today.I have a bad habit of reading during the sermon on Sundays. Honestly, I can get bored.In my opinion, church sermons typically go against the ideas of adult learning theory especially in the age of social media. Also, I think sermons often retread ground as they go over the same issues over and over again.Our new pastor at the PC-USA church that I attend does give good sermons. She has led our congregation for 2 years, and I think her preaching ability is a rare exception of thou
Letters from Home (opens the original)
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It has been a while since I last posted. Honestly, life has been hectic. I have a job that understandably takes up much time. I also had to go back to my mother’s house in Texas to clean out some things for her. Early fall in Texas is basically the Sahara Desert in regards to the heat, and my working in her garage for a few days wore me out.While I was there, I picked up a few items for safekeeping.The biggest things that I kept had to do with my father. He died in 2015 due to a car accident in
We Are Still Searching (opens the original)
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This week, I read the Ryan Burge Substack post titled “The Two Dimensions of Religious Belief in America.” This is a good Substack to follow, by the way.In the post, he looked at data from the Pew Religious Landscape Study to see how Americans tend to look at their faith from an overall view. By an “overall view”, I mean he looked at the very basics of faith. You can read the post to see how his statistics were obtained.<div class="captioned-image-
Ireland and the Ground (opens the original)
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I apologize about the delay in blogging. I was on an extended trip to Ireland. I would like to say that I was being very cultural and immersing myself in Ireland’s rich history (I did quite a bit of this), but I really went there for a college football game in Dublin.What I always appreciate about Europe, including Ireland, is its rich and very old history. The United States where I live is such a young country, notwithstanding the ancient presence of Native Americans in North America which is i
A Friend Died (opens the original)
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I had a friend pass away last week. He wasn’t a close friend, but he was a friend nevertheless, and I went to his funeral this weekend.When Susan and I went through a somewhat pessimistic period regarding church attendance, this guy came around.We had churned through 2 churches that made statements about being open and affirming (i.e., wanting LGBTQ+ people to attend — no strings attached) but didn’t follow through. The process was extremely painful since we had two gay children.One church was p
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