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.
LONG STORY SHORT: Cell Membranes Don’t ‘Just Happen’ (And You Die If They Don’t Happen Somehow)
Ever hear of “homeostasis?” If you aren’t really into cellular biology, odds are you’re not familiar with that term. What it means is the ability of an organism to maintain the proper internal balance between obtaining what it must have for life and getting rid of the stuff that would kill it. Now, did you…
HILLFAITH STUDIES: Here’s Why the Three Best-Known Alternative Explanations for the Empty Tomb Make No Sense At All
Skeptics have proposed over the years three basic alternative explanations for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, including the Swoon Theory, the Hallucination Theory and the Wrong-Tomb Theory. Here’s the basic issue underlying the debate about the Resurrection: If Jesus was resurrected on the third day following His crucifixion and burial in the rich man’s tomb,…
HILLFAITH STUDIES: Why the Empty Tomb Points to Jesus’ Literal Resurrection
All four of the New Testament gospels report that, when the women who were the first to visit the tomb of Jesus on the third day following His death and burial, arrived there, they found it empty and wide open. When John and Peter subsequently ran to the tomb, they also found it empty. So…
EXPLAIN THIS: A Man Who Says These Things About Himself …
Who is Jesus? Ask most people these days and they are likely to say Jesus was a great moral teacher in ancient times, or perhaps one of a series of claimants to be the messiah who would defeat the Romans and restore Israel to its former glory. Others of a more skeptical bent call Jesus…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: TYLER VARNER comes aboard the staff of Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) as a Staff Assistant, after interning for Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) and the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms. Tyler is a 2021 graduate in Information Science and Systems/Information Technology from Morgan State University. And joining the staff of Maryland’s other senator, Sen. Ben…
Meet the Kinesins, Your Body’s On-Time Cellular Supply Chain Trucking Fleet
Those billions of cells that make up your body require all kinds of supplies in order to fulfill their respective functions in keeping you alive and well. That’s where the “walking wonder” of the Kinesin family of molecular motors enters the picture. As the Discovery Institute’s Evolution News & Science Today explains, the Kinesin-II is…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Historian’s Analysis Offers New Approach to Evidence for Jesus’ Resurrection
Did the earliest Christians — those around in the days and weeks immediately following His death, burial and resurrection — understand who He claimed to be or did it take decades before the full truth of His divinity as the Son of God and full humanity as the Son of Man was understood and proclaimed,…
This May Be A Hugely Significant Archeological Find About The Ancient Hebrews
Dr. Sean McDowell, an Associate Professor of Apologetics at Biola University, describes a recent archeological discovery in Israel that could be decisive evidence that the Hebrews were a literate culture when they arrived in the Promised Land following their 400 year-captivity in Egypt. Why is this discovery so important? Because critics have argued that the…