John Jamieson

Oct 30, 2024 | capemaycountyherald.com | John Jamieson

Question: I am looking for a new church. What should I look for? Answer: Having spent more than three decades in institutional chaplaincies, I have often been asked, “What difference does it make which church I attend? Aren’t all churches more or less the same?”The answer is an unqualified “No!” If you claim to be a Christ follower, you must carefully assess any church you may be attending. While there are many similarities between the various denominations, there are also some critical differences.

Jul 5, 2024 | medium.com | John Jamieson

It happened multiple times last week while my wife and I were on a brief break in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I just let it pass the first time it happened, but it happened a few more times, forcing me to take notice. People in the know informed me I was in the wrong queue. I was politely told I should be in the other queue. Brazil had a different classification for the over-60s, granting them the right to use the priority queue.

May 8, 2024 | medium.com | John Jamieson

I have already become a writer. I had set myself a goal of writing one thousand words daily. I am six weeks into that discipline, and it has gone well. I can now call myself a writer. I write one thousand words daily and six times weekly. It was a challenging process, and I have written a lot of garbage. So I can tick stage one of my writing plan: become a writer. Well done, John. Goal one has been achieved. My second goal is to become a published writer, which brings me to this post.

Nov 13, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Chong Chen |John Jamieson |Japan Agency

AbstractMonoplacophoran molluscs have been dubbed "living fossils" due to their absence in the fossil record for about 375 million years, until Neopilina galatheae Lemche, 1957 was trawled off Costa Rica in 1952. Since then, over 35 species of living monoplacophorans have been discovered. Nevertheless, in situ observations of these rare deep-sea animals remain scant. Here, we observed and collected an intact specimen of N.