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SCIENCE AND FAITH: Free Will Is An Illusion If Choices Are Simply Determined By The Chemistry Of Our Brains
It is not uncommon to hear the claim that human thoughts and choices are actually nothing more than the product of material processes of neurons acting and reacting within our physical brains. Put another way, our minds are illusions. We only think we think of our own free will. As Stephen Hawking, the famous physicist…
Read MoreSTAFF MOVES: Look Who Is Getting Promoted On The Hill
Recent Staff Moves, As Reported By Legistorm: Kate Gould is the new senior policy adviser to Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), following a stint as a foreign policy fellow at the Congressional Progressive Caucus Center. She is a 2007 graduate of Western Washington University with a BA in international development, political science and international relations. Gould…
Read MoreWORKPLACE ISSUES: There Are Multiple Staff-Related Provisions In The Congressional Reform Package
A path to bigger personal staffs for House Members could be cleared if the bipartisan recommendations from the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress are adopted. All House staff members would be paid twice a month instead of the monthly compensation schedule they have worked on for decades, under the recommendations. Modernization panel Chairman…
Read MoreTHINK ABOUT THIS: Jesus Can’t Be The Only Way To Heaven Because All World Religions Are The Same
One of the most frequently heard objections to Christianity is that Jesus claimed to be the only way to Heaven, as He did at John 14:1 when He said: “I am the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the Father but through me.” But exclusive claims like that just grate on…
Read MoreWORKING ON THE HILL: Three GOP Senate Freshmen Among Top 10 For Staff Pay
Data compiled by Legistorm finds three Senate Republican freshmen among the top 10 best-paying solons in the upper chamber of Congress, according to a report published just before the Christmas break. “Among the top ten highest paying Senate offices, three first-term senators made the list: Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) with a median office salary of…
Read MoreGREAT QUOTES: Author C.S. Lewis On Jesus And The Poached Egg
“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make…
Read MoreTHINK ABOUT THIS: Did Jesus Rise From The Dead? Here Are The Facts, Part 2
Critics and skeptics over the centuries have come up with a multitude of theories attempting to discount the claim that Jesus Christ rose from the dead three days after His death on the cross. These theories fall into four primary categories: Some sort of conspiracy. He only appeared to have died. Somebody moved His body…
Read MoreTHINK ABOUT THIS: Did Jesus Rise From The Dead? Here Are The Facts, Part 1
If you and I meet in the Longworth Cafeteria and begin talking, what would happen if one of us claimed to be God Incarnate? The other would quite possibly call for those nice men in white with nets, right? But what if the one of us claiming deity did something so miraculous that only God…
Read MoreChristians Are Just A Bunch Of Gullible Bible Thumpers, Right?
Cold-Case Christianity’s J. Warner Wallaces Responds to a great question during a recent conversation on the campus of Ohio State University
Read More*Welcome Back! It’s A New Year, 2020
Here’s hoping you had an absolutely wonderful holiday and that you are revved up about being back on Capitol Hill “tanned, rested and ready” for the second session of the 116th Congress in 2020. Here’s what you can expect to find on HillFaith in coming months: First, what they didn’t tell you in college about…
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