Archive for September 2021
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week (Might Be Somebody You Know!)
Courtesy of Legistorm: JORDAN WOOD moves up to the Legislative Director slot for Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX), after serving as Senior Legislative Assistant. Jordan is a 2015 BA graduate of the University of Missouri in Political Science, Government and Psychology. There is a new Staff Director for the Democratic majority on the House Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee…
Read MoreTHINK ABOUT THIS: Don’t All Religions Lead to God?
You’ve heard it many times before, that “all roads lead to Heaven,” or some variation thereof for the belief that it doesn’t matter which religion you follow because all of the deities involved inspire people to lead good lives and therefore are paths to Heaven. This idea is also among the most frequently heard objections…
Read MoreTHINK ABOUT THIS: How Could God Create Something Out of Nothing?
Philosopher Kenneth Samples of Reasons To Believe shares an interesting social media exchange he recently had with a correspondent who insisted that God had to create the universe out of something and since He was the only something around, He must have done it out of Himself. Here’s how Samples’ correspondent put the issue to…
Read MoreIf I Ask You A Serious Question, Will You Give Me A Brutally Honest Answer?
Dr. Frank Turek of cross-examined.org and “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist” fame contends that the Elephant in the Room underlying debates between atheists/agnostics and Christians is the fact that if God does indeed exist, then there is such a thing as binding morality. Problem is, thanks to original sin, according to…
Read MoreThe Fish Story of Jonah Like You’ve Never Heard it Before
You probably know the story of Jonah, the Old Testament prophet who was swallowed by a whale (a “great fish” actually), then three days later was spit up on shore. After he dried out, Jonah then did what God had told him to do in the first place, which was preach repentance to the people…
Read MoreTHINK ABOUT THIS: The Two Facts That Change Everything
It’s a complicated world out there and it’s getting more so every day, thanks in great part to steady advances in science and technology and the practical applications thereof in daily life. And as our lives become steadily more complicated, it becomes all the more important that we be able to recognize and prioritize what…
Read MoreEXPLAIN THIS: New Episode of the ‘Science Uprising,’ on Something From Nothing?
You are walking along a corridor of offices in the Dirksen Senate Office Building and suddenly, with no warning, a wall appears out of nowhere, blocking your forward progress and causing you to drop the files you were carrying. Sounds implausible, right? Everybody knows walls don’t just suddenly appear where nothing stood an instant before. Put…
Read MoreThink You Can Solve Any of the ‘Chicken and Egg’ Problems on the Origin of Life?
Capitol Hill is thick with people who want to be famous for something in politics and government, but what if there is a way to put your name on the lips of every human being on the face of the Earth, no matter what interests them? Sound impossible? Well, if you can solve any of…
Read MoreWill Our Pets Be In Heaven Waiting For Us? A Meditation on Creation
If you, like me, love dogs and cats, you’ve probably wondered what happens to them when they die. This question was again in my mind yesterday as our beloved black Lab, Twister, died of a ruptured spleen. We rescued Twister when he was five after his master, who used him as a gun dog and…
Read MoreSurprise! Bible Spares No One in Old or New Testaments From Deserved Criticism
When marketers prepare advertising for new products, they only talk about the claimed benefits, while ignoring any possible criticisms. Same with political campaigns that portray their candidates in only the most glowing of terms, and historical revisionists seeking to coverup their particular heroes’ flaws. But that’s not the approach of the Bible’s authors in either…
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