Archive for March 2025
MYTH-BUSTERS: ‘The American Miracle: Our Nation is No Accident’
(TWO-MINUTE READ) — There are repeated evidences throughout the Old Testament of God working providentially in human history, but what about in the modern era? Did God just decide to take the Deist route and let mankind go its own way? That’s an especially relevant question in America because so many secular historians have emphasized…
Read MoreHILL STAFF VIEWS: Aides Discuss Faith Issues in 52 Percent of Hill Offices
(ONE-MINUTE READ) — A little more than half of all congressional aides responding to a recent CNCT Capitol Pulse survey said religious faith issues are discussed — either “yes, often” or “yes, sometimes” — among staffers in their Hill offices. Among the 23 percent who answered “yes, often,” the respondents included 33 percent of the…
Read MoreHILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: PAMELA LARKIN takes over as Communications Director for Rep. Rick Larsen (D-Wash.) following a stint with the same duties in the Larsen election campaign of 2024. Prior to the campaign trail, Pamela was Senior Manager for Strategy of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Democracy Program. Pamela is a 2019…
Read MoreSECRETS OF THE CELL (Episode 6): Meet Bacteria, the Superheroes of the Microbial World
(18-MINUTE VIEWING) — Bacteria is bad, right? That’s the stuff that makes people sick. When we say we want to clean up an area like, say, the food preparation countertop of your kitchen, you don’t want to have billions of destructive microscopic bacteria swimming around right where you are slicing chicken. But what if there…
Read MoreCONTRADICTIONS: Three Of The Most Common Mistakes Bible Skeptics Make
(FOUR-MINUTE READ) — Skeptics of the divine origin of the Old and New Testaments that make up the Bible, the most widely read and bought book in human history, share a number of characteristics in addition to their skepticism. Dr. Norman Geisler is among the theological giants of the day. While he passed away in…
Read MoreFAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Why Malden, Massachusetts Insisted on a Republic Under God
(QUICK READ) — [“W]e are confirmed in the opinion, that the present age would be deficient in their duty to God, their posterity and themselves if they do not establish an American republic. “This is the only form of government we wish to see established; for we can never be willingly subject to any other…
Read MoreMYTHS & MISCHIEF: Are You Good Enough to go to Heaven?
(TWO-MINUTE VIEWING) — Think being “good” is enough to get you into Heaven? You are far from alone if that is what you think. There are endless variations on this basic theme that we human beings use to rationalize the reality that all of us, in the words of Romans 3:23 “have sinned and fallen…
Read MoreHILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: NICOLE CAO just began work in her first position on a congressional staffer, serving as a Staff Assistant in the office of Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.). Nicole is currently completing her work on a MA in Public Administration at Georgetown University. Previously, she graduated from the University of…
Read MoreMORNING JOE STAN: Who Ya Gonna Believe About Yourself, the World or Your Creator?
(TWO-MINUTE LISTEN) — If that title above sounds like a bit of click-bait rhetoric on a post that really doesn’t any real substance or relevance for you as a congressional aide working on Capitol Hill, let me assure you Joe Stan never appears on HillFaith just to be you to click on something. Joe is…
Read MoreFAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Alexander Hamilton on Christianity as Civilization’s Key Vs the Horrors of the French Revolution
(QUICK READ) — How clearly is it proved by this that the praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped of half its horrors. The French renounce Christianity, and they relapse into barbarism—war resumes the same hideous and savage form…
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