Our planetary neighbor, Venus, differs from earth in some very significant ways.
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Who is Buried in Salome’s Tomb?
By Dr. Don Bierle, FaithSearch President
Does this sound like the setup to an old joke? (“Who is buried in Grant’s tomb?”) Well, Salome is, I suppose! The question arises, who was she?
On a hilltop in the foothills of southern Judea, near the ancient road connecting the plains and foothills with Hebron, is Horvat Qasra with a cave chapel dedicated to Saint Salome. Horvat Qasra was a first century hilltop agricultural estate consisting of seven-and-a-half acres with a wealthy fortified residence and a separate tomb complex. It is about thirty-five miles south of Jerusalem.
By the middle of the second century AD the site was mostly forgotten until the Byzantine Christians in the fifth century converted the tomb complex into a cave chapel dedicated to a woman by the name of Salome. Inscriptions throughout the site appealing to her as “Holy Salome” and “Lady” clearly indicate she was revered as a saint.
[Read more…]Happenings, April 2025
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By Dr. Don Bierle, President, FaithSearch International
In my presentations and writing, I have often developed the argument of Intelligent Design as evidence for God’s hand in creation. I don’t usually have elementary students as my audience. Nor do I usually recommend apologetic materials for children. My readers more often are parents, grandparents, or those who have friends with kids. For them, I can’t resist mentioning these two books on biological design for this issue of the Happ-O-getics.
[Read more…]Far Out!
NASA never anticipated this. The Voyager 1 probe was launched in 1977 for a four-year mission. Evidently it has retained a trickle of power and NASA has reestablished contact with it at over fifteen billion miles away in space!
Source: CNN Science Wonder Theory, December 7, 2024, “The 47-year-old Voyager probes are exploring interstellar space. Dwindling power could end their journey,” Ashley Strickland,
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/07/science/voyager-1-science-newsletter-wt/index.html, accessed April 3, 2025.
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