Archive for August 2023
Did You Hear About The Dramatic Fall Of The New Atheism?
Signs are abounding that something of a spiritual rebirth is gathering strength in the West, especially the U.S. and the U.K., and, according to Justin Brierley, and one of the prompts of this renewal, ironically, is the decline of the once-prominent New Atheism movement. “While it started in about 2005, I noticed that the conversation…
Read MoreDID YOU KNOW: The Number One Reason Many People Think The Bible Is Confusing
Nobody alive today was around the last time the Bible was not the best-selling book in America. Sales of Bibles in all of its multiple translations total around $500 million in the U.S. year-in and year-out. But people often call the Bible “confusing” or “hard to understand.” Why is it the book that outsells every…
Read MoreCONSIDER THIS: No, C.S. Lewis Did Not Miss A Fourth Option in His Trilemma
If you check out HillFaith posts with any frequency, you have likely read a reference or two to the justly famous “Trilemma” propounded by the great Christian apologist C.S. Lewis: That is that, given His claims about Himself, Jesus must either have been a Liar, a Lunatic or the Lord of the universe. The Trilemma…
Read MoreSUNDAY SONGS: ‘God Bless The Broken Road’ by Rascal Flatts
It Was 23 Years Ago Today That I Died
It was August 4, 2000, as I lay on an operating table having emergency double bypass heart surgery. At age 50, nearly 23 years of Marlboros and Coors had caught up with me because the artery cardiologists call “the widowmaker” was 90 percent blocked when they opened my chest. “You are the 50-year-old guy in…
Read MoreCONSIDER THIS: Did Jesus Really Think He Was God?
There are among skeptical scholars some who argue that Jesus Christ never existed as a real person, while others who concede that He did indeed live on this Earth 2,000 years ago, but they contend He never actually thought of or described Himself as God. There is abundant evidence in ancient secular writings, as well…
Read MoreSTAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: JON ADAME is the new Chief of Staff for Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), capping a nearly seven-year span from his first position working as her Policy Coordinator on the House Energy and Commerce Committee in 2017. Since that slot beginning, Jon has served as Blackburn’s Legislative Counsel in the House of Representatives,…
Read MoreCONSIDER THIS: Are We Merely Blobs of Matter Or Do We Also Have Non-Material Minds and Souls?
At the most basic level, the fundamental point of disagreement that separates thoughtful people of faith from knowledgeable atheists and agnostics is whether human beings are merely collections of physical materials or that plus non-material minds and souls. There is a superb new book out by Joshua Farris entitled “The Creation of Self: A Case…
Read MoreWHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Are Humans and Chimpanzees Basically the Same? Or Is That Zombie Science?
You’ve probably heard at one time or another the claim that we human beings share 98-99 percent of our DNA with chimpanzees, so we are basically the same. But the reality is that we humans also share about 60 percent of our DNA with bananas and nobody argues we are a lot like bananas. The…
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