CONSIDER THIS: Is There Actually a World-Wide Resurgence of Belief in God?
(35-MINUTE WATCH) — Have you noticed? When was the last time you saw one of the stars of the New Atheists movement in the headlines with their familiarly skeptical debunking of the Bible, Jesus Christ and Christianity?
British author and speaker Justin Brierley (Screenshot from YouTube).
Sadly, Christopher Hitchens passed away in 2011 and folks like Richard Dawkins don’t seem nearly as prominent in the public discourse these days as they were during, for example, the Obama era.
So, what happened? According to the American Bible Society’s John Blake and Justin Brierley, the respected British podcaster, author and intellectual apologist for Christian faith, what happened is there has been a measurable resurgence in the Western world in recent years in reading the Bible, particularly among young men.
The following podcast video is longer than normally appears here on HillFaith, but I strongly encourage you, especially if you are a congressional aide of Christian faith or of no faith at all to make time to give this a listen. This is hugely important for everybody but especially for those of us living and working on Capitol Hill: