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.
Six Reasons Why Jesus Still Matters in a Secular Age
Lots of surveys in recent months indicate growth in the number of “None” Americans, those who claim to have no religious faith. And government at many levels and on multiple fronts increasingly displays a hostility to religious faith and expression. But even as the Western world becomes more secularized, Jesus is impossible to avoid because,…
How the Roman Empire Paved the Way for the Birth of Jesus
One of the things the Romans did quite well with their conquered lands was to build the best network of roads ever seen in the ancient world to connect them, thus increasing commerce, the sharing of languages and education, and encouraging the spread of new ideas. Something else that Rome’s roads did was pave the…
Yes, There is a Bunch of Evidence for the Virgin Birth of Jesus
It’s the Christmas season, so the popular media critics of all things Christianity are out in force with their annual debunking of the Virgin Birth of Jesus, as described in the Gospel according to Matthew. And to be sure, there are folks for whom acceptance of the Virgin Birth of Jesus is just as, if…
No, Zenorobots Are NOT a New Form of Self-Replication
It happens with a fair amount of regularity — researchers somewhere will make sensational claims about having achieved this or that amazing feat, but we find on investigation that it was all mostly, or totally, hype. Thus, it is with the recent claim by researchers at Harvard, University of Vermont and Tufts to have created…
Executive Producer Says Crowd-Funded Freedom, Independence From Hollywood Are Keys to Success of ‘The Chosen’
Darrell Eves is the executive producer of “The Chosen,” the incredibly successful crowd-funded series telling the story of Jesus Christ with unprecedented quality in its cinematography, scripting and production. Now in it’s third season and having set records for crowd-funded entertainment projects, people want to know why the series has been such a success. Eves…
Six ‘ETs’ of Evidence for the Credibility of the Gospels
Simon Greenleaf was an acclaimed professor of the Harvard Law School and the author of the authoritative standards for determining the credibility and admissibility of witnesses and evidence in the American court system. While there is some dispute on the question, it appears that Greenleaf set out at one point early in his life to…
‘Christmas With The Chosen’ Tops Daily Box Offices
Dallas Jenkins’ “Christmas with The Chosen” special theatre release was tops in the nation two days this past week and he thinks it’s headed to finishing in the top five. The production is in movie theaters around the country until December 10. Check out the following trailer and it’s easy to see why “The Chosen”…
It’s Christmas Season, So Here Come the Virgin Birth Skeptics – And They’re Still Wrong
Christmas is only a few weeks away, so expect to see and hear in the Mainstream Media skeptics of the New Testament claiming that there is “scant evidence” for the incarnate birth of Jesus Christ to the virgin Mary in Bethlehem. More specifically, because a couple of the Gospel authors and Saint Paul say nothing…
You Know 747 Wings Have Designers, So Why Don’t Eagles’ Wings?
Let’s talk about airplane wings for a bit. Over the decades of aeronautical design and development since the Wright Brothers’ first flight in 1903, engineers have come up with multiple configurations for wings. There were originally biplanes with multiple stacks of forward wings, followed by monoplanes with just one level, but with some located in…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Moving Up on Capitol Hill (May be Somebody You Know)
Courtesy of Legistorm: TREVOR WHETSTONE is the new Chief of Staff for Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT). Trevor comes to the Hill after stints in the White House, Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security. Trevor’s law degree is from Ava Maria School of Law in 2006. He also earned MAs from Catholic University of…