HillFaith Blog: Good News for Hill Staffers
Welcome to HillFaith:Good News for Hill Staffers! This is where you’ll find two types of content:
First, fact-driven, thoroughly researched and often highly personalized Christian apologetics. Second, news and analyses about working on the Hill, including things like who's being promoted, what are the best (and worst!) offices to work for, salary information, and much else.
Here at HillFaith, we appreciate the importance, the challenges and the complexities of the work you do we are passionate about being a positive, informative resource for those in the trenches.
Most importantly, we want to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He is alive and He is "the way, the truth and the life." He is also the key to living the abundant life. Not materially, but in the Truth that sets you forever free.
WHY I BELIEVE: Jesus’ Resurrection Was Proclaimed as Fact Within Weeks, Not Decades Later as Legend
Among the most common arguments from skeptics is that the claim Jesus was resurrected on the third day after the crucifixion and burial was a “later invention,” or a legend that grew over the decades following His death. If you ever played “Telephone” as a kid, you can easily understand how such assertions can sound…
THE CHOSEN: Nicodemus, the Perplexed, Being ‘Born Again,’ and John 3:16
There was a time not that long ago in America when any time you turned on the TV to watch a college game on Saturday or a professional contest on Sunday, you would see a sign in the grandstands behind the goal post saying “John 3:16.” “For God so loved the world that He gave…
Something to Think About, America, on the National Day of Prayer
Thursday, May 5, 2022, is America’s National Day of Prayer. This item came to me as I was preparing a Grow Group lesson as a member of Friendship Baptist Church in Sykesville, Maryland, and it seems particularly relevant as millions of Christians around the country gather together to pray for America, its leaders and its…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week!
Courtesy of Legistorm: BRIAN FAUGHNAN is the new Communications Director for the Republicans on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Faughnan previously spent more than two years as Senior Writer for Stand Together at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Brian is a 1988 BSFS in Soviet Studies and Economics at Georgetown University. Moving up…
Bacteria With Machine Guns? Bacteria That Make Computer Chips?
Yesterday in this space, I presented a proposition that information, the prerequisite of all life, must be the result of conscious choice and will, which means it cannot be the product of random chance. In the following video, the Discover Institute’s Michael Behe, author of the increasingly influential “Darwin’s Black Box,” explores the incredible complexity…
THINK ABOUT THIS: If Information Is The Prerequisite For Creation, Then …
There is one sine qua non characteristic shared by every living thing that exists now, ever has existed or ever will exist — information that produces or enables a defining structure and purpose. That is a statement all reasonable advocates of evolutionary materialism and Intelligent Design ought to be able to confirm. So consider this:…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who Is Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week!
Courtesy of Legistorm: BLAKE STEVENS is leaving the newsroom of Knoxville’s WATE-TV and moving to the nation’s capital to take on duties as Press Secretary for Rep. John Rose (R-TN). Blake spent four years as a Reporter and Anchor for the station. He earned his BS in Communications Broadcasting and Sociology from the University of…
Scientist Describes Scientific Discoveries Some Atheists Don’t Want You to Know About
(Editor’s Note: This post has been updated throughout to reflect the proper spelling of Professor Hedin’s last name. My apologies to the good professor and HillFaith’s many readers for this lapse in editorial disciple.) Professor and physicist Eric Hedin taught a Seminar in Physical Sciences course entitled “The Boundaries of Science” for six years at…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Here’s the Flax You Need to Know About Rahab the Prostitute
“Little” details can sometimes provide enormously important clues to the bigger story and there is a superb illustration of this reality in the Biblical account of how Rahab the Prostitute in Jericho hid the two Jewish spies. The nation of Israel has completed its 40-year wandering in the Wilderness and is now poised on…
EXPLAIN THIS: Is It By Chance or Design That Geckos Can Walk on Ceilings Without Using Suction Cups?
If you’ve watched five minutes of TV in recent months, you’ve seen the Gecko, the Aussie accented lizard advertising for GEICO, the insurance company. GEICO has turned its Gecko into a marketing phenom so effectively that millions of Americans think of the insurance company as soon as they hear the word “Gecko.” But the real…