Archive for November 2018
New Evidence Shows Luke Didn’t Just Invent The Census In The Christmas Story
Christmas is less than a month away and that means there is a fair amount of discussion in the media and popular culture about the birth of Jesus Christ in a manger in Bethlehem. Critics have long delighted to point out that the census that plays a key role in Luke’s Gospel account of His…
Read MoreHere’s Why Even Critical Scholars Now Say The Gospels Are Reliable
One of the effects of working on Capitol Hill for any length of time is how it tends to capture your focus within the narrow confines of Washington politics and policy. There’s a whole world out there in the “real world” beyond the Potomac River, one small but immensely significant part of which is the…
Read MoreMaybe Those Gospel Contradictions Are Intentional
Mention “New Testament” or “Bible” or “Gospels” in a mixed crowd and be prepared to be told there are so many contradictions in the documents that they can’t be believed. As Prof. Sean McDowell points out, there are indeed what appear contradictions in the Gospels, such as John 3:16 and I John 2:15. “Which is…
Read MoreIs Jesus’ Resurrection Fact Or Just ‘Fake News?’
You hear it regularly in conversations on Capitol Hill. One guy says X and the other guy instantly dismisses it because “oh, that’s what you expect Fox/CNN/MSNBC to say. That’s just fake news.” And that raises an interesting question, and not just for men and women working in the House and Senate or one of…
Read MoreWasn’t The Resurrection Really Just A Conspiracy?
“Conspiracy” is a word one hears regularly on Capitol Hill and it’s almost always in the context of somebody doing something they don’t want somebody else to know about. After all, as Scripture says, darkness hates the light. So there is invariably a sinister association with conspiracies, as well as with other words that can…
Read MoreCan We Think About Jesus Like A Detective? Or A Hill Investigator?
Whether you are a famous cold-case detective like J. Warner Wallace solving 30-year-old murders or a veteran investigator for a congressional committee probing government contract fraud, much of what you do and how you do it is the same. Take, for example, assessing the credibility of witnesses. Crime detectives and Hill investigators have to do…
Read MoreDoes The Bible Demean Women (On The Hill Or Anywhere Else)?
It’s a truism in many secular precincts that Christianity has kept women in a subordinate position to men, but is that a reflection on the Bible that defines the faith or on the Christians who misused or misunderstood it? With at least 100 newly elected women heading to mount the Capitol Hill steps above as…
Read MoreWhy Does This Historian Say He Got Christianity Wrong?
Imagine for a moment that Jesus never entered history. There would be no Sermon on the Mount. No Crucifixion. No Resurrection. No New Testament. No Paul. Rome is the foundation of everything that comes after its fall. And Rome, indeed virtually the entire ancient world, was based politically and economically on slavery, the rights and…
Read MoreDo Moral Intuitions Point To God, Evolutionary Experience or Chance?
Ask 100 randomly selected congressional aides whether they think it’s immoral to torture children and I guarantee you all 100 — like virtually any other similarly sized and chosen group — will react in horror and say something like “of course not, only a monster would do that.” Such responses are evidence of the moral…
Read MoreToday’s Question For Hundreds Of Hill Staffers — What Now?
Tuesday’s 2018 midterm election is followed by a grim morning for hundreds of congressional aides. They work on the personal staffs of losing Democrat and Republican senators and representatives and, on the House side, on the outgoing Republican majority’s committee staffs. Come the first week of January when the new Congress is seated, with Republicans…
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