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.
‘The Chosen’ Director Dallas Jenkins Answers Questions About His Faith, How the Show Is Done and Much More
Lots of people working on congressional staffs are watching “The Chosen,” the amazing, crowd-supported, Internet-based series on the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The series has reached unprecedented millions of viewers and is by far the most successful such program ever. With success, however, comes inevitable controversies, rumors and allegations, so there are…
Once She Hated Israel, Then She Found Yeshua
Emily Emanuel grew up in a Jewish family but her heritage was more of a political joke than anything else. “Everyone at university used to call me ‘The Jew,’ they projected a Jewish identify on me that I hadn’t actually wanted or understood,” she explains. In graduate school, she did her dissertation for a journalism…
Happy New Year! Ready to Roll Your Dice on 2022?
If that headline seems to be an odd question, it’s actually not. It’s a New Year and a lot of folks who live and work on, in and around Capitol Hill believe they are here in this world by chance, which is another way of saying by the roll of the dice. Now, think about…
BELIEVING IS SEEING: Once Upon a Time, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
If you can only read one book in 2022, “Believing is Seeing” by Dr. Michael Guillen could well be a life-changing choice regardless whether you are a determined atheist, a hard-nosed scientific materialist, or a Bible-believing Christian. The subtitle of the book describes this work perfectly: “A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Three Huge Challenges to Scientific Atheism
Famed atheist advocate Richard Dawkins argues that the universe is exactly what should be expected if it is the product of the “blind, pitiless indifference” of purely materialistic forces operating without purpose or plan. If that vision of the universe and the existence of human beings is accurate, then nobody has anything to look forward…
SUNDAY SONGS: ‘Children, Go Where I Send Thee,’ by Little Big Town
HT to Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit for introducing this delightful music to me.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
HillFaith is taking it easy and hoping Jesus’ birth brings you and yours bundles of Christmas joy
O Holy Night
*The Birth of Jesus Christ In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because…
EXPLAIN THIS: Aliens, Multiverses or a Fine-Tuner?
Philosophers have called it the ultimate question – Why is there something rather than nothing? Which then leads to this question: If something exists, has it always existed or did it have a beginning? And that question logically requires this one: If it always existed, it’s impossible to verify that it always will exist, but…
EXPLAIN THIS: Christian Civilization Gave Rise to Modern Science
It’s been a truism on college campuses and in the Mainstream Media for decades that science and faith are in total conflict, having no connections whatsoever because the former is about the observable and rational, while the latter is about the unseen and unverifiable. The problem with that particular piece of conventional wisdom is that…