Archive for August 2020
WORKING ON CAPITOL HILL: These Are The Top 10 Best, Worst Paying Offices For Staff
Senators traditionally pay their staffs somewhat more on average than House members, but the latest comprehensive salary data from Legistorm makes clear that is not necessarily always the case. Scan through the top 10 highest average staff salary offices and you find seven senators, two House members and one non-voting House member. At the other…
Read MoreMYTH BUSTERS: Why The Stolen Body Theory Fails
Critics of the Bible and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead three days after His death on a Roman cross of crucifixion have often tried to argue the stolen body theory. No, critics argue, Jesus was not resurrected from the dead, His body was stolen, either by the disciples, who then made up…
Read MoreHappy, Happy, Happy? How About Real Joy?
What is the difference between being “happy” and experiencing “joy?” At first thought, it’s easy to miss the profound difference between being happy and experiencing joy, but that difference points us to the kind of life that God wants us to live. Dr. Kathy Koch of Summit Ministries explains:
Read MoreTHINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said: “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him and We will make come to him and make Our home with him … The word that you hear is not from Me, but is from the Father who sent Me.” — John 14:23 And C.S. Lewis…
Read MoreOnce I Was Among The ‘Pro-Choice’ (Unthinkingly). But Then I Became Firmly Pro-Life. This Is Why
It comes back to me at the most unexpected moments, as it did a couple of days ago, but always as an uncomfortable recollection from a brief, regretted moment in a college classroom long past. “It” is the memory of something I said as a sophomore or junior at Oklahoma State University in 1970 or…
Read MoreSTAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Ryan Bentz is making the move from Intern to Staff Assistant to Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE). Ryan expects to complete his BS in political science and government in 2021 from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Also making the jump from Intern is Nathan Chael, who was promoted to Legislative Correspondent on the…
Read MoreWHAT WOULD YOU SAY: When Someone Claims The Crusades Prove Christianity Is Just As Violent As Islam
Listen to a conversation on the Hill among congressional staffers about the Crusades and it’s a near certainty that somebody will claim these Middle Ages wars between Christians and Muslims prove Christianity is just as violent as Islam. There is some truth behind that statement, but it’s not what you might be expecting. What it…
Read MoreWhy Are All My Friends Becoming Marxists (Most Don’t Realize That’s What They’re Doing)?
Jon Harris is the author/thinker/critic behind “Conversations That Matter” on Patreon and elsewhere on the Internet. He is a born-again Christian of the Reformed persuasion and a traditional American conservative. But don’t let that description put you off because Harris is also a very perceptive, observant and articulate critic of all sides of contemporary culture…
Read MoreDr. Francis Collins Explains What Led Him From Atheism To Jesus (Yes, THAT Francis Collins!)
Dr. Francis Collins is probably best known as the former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute from 1993 to 2008. But there is another distinction in his biography that is equally unusual. That distinction is the fact Collins was appointed to head the National Institutes for Health (NIH) by President Barack Obama in…
Read MoreWhat If ‘That Hideous Strength’— The Magician’s Twin — Has Already Arrived Among Us?
Daniel Bell, the great American sociologist of the 20th century, once declared that “the essence of modernity is that nothing is sacred.” Dostoevsky put it a little more precisely: “If God is dead, then everything is permitted.” Just how right the sociologist and novelist were was foreshadowed by a brilliant and prophetic novel written in…
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