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.
THINK ABOUT THIS: Don’t All Religions Lead to God?
You’ve heard it many times before, that “all roads lead to Heaven,” or some variation thereof for the belief that it doesn’t matter which religion you follow because all of the deities involved inspire people to lead good lives and therefore are paths to Heaven. This idea is also among the most frequently heard objections…
THINK ABOUT THIS: How Could God Create Something Out of Nothing?
Philosopher Kenneth Samples of Reasons To Believe shares an interesting social media exchange he recently had with a correspondent who insisted that God had to create the universe out of something and since He was the only something around, He must have done it out of Himself. Here’s how Samples’ correspondent put the issue to…
If I Ask You A Serious Question, Will You Give Me A Brutally Honest Answer?
Dr. Frank Turek of cross-examined.org and “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist” fame contends that the Elephant in the Room underlying debates between atheists/agnostics and Christians is the fact that if God does indeed exist, then there is such a thing as binding morality. Problem is, thanks to original sin, according to…
The Fish Story of Jonah Like You’ve Never Heard it Before
You probably know the story of Jonah, the Old Testament prophet who was swallowed by a whale (a “great fish” actually), then three days later was spit up on shore. After he dried out, Jonah then did what God had told him to do in the first place, which was preach repentance to the people…
THINK ABOUT THIS: The Two Facts That Change Everything
It’s a complicated world out there and it’s getting more so every day, thanks in great part to steady advances in science and technology and the practical applications thereof in daily life. And as our lives become steadily more complicated, it becomes all the more important that we be able to recognize and prioritize what…
EXPLAIN THIS: New Episode of the ‘Science Uprising,’ on Something From Nothing?
You are walking along a corridor of offices in the Dirksen Senate Office Building and suddenly, with no warning, a wall appears out of nowhere, blocking your forward progress and causing you to drop the files you were carrying. Sounds implausible, right? Everybody knows walls don’t just suddenly appear where nothing stood an instant before. Put…
Think You Can Solve Any of the ‘Chicken and Egg’ Problems on the Origin of Life?
Capitol Hill is thick with people who want to be famous for something in politics and government, but what if there is a way to put your name on the lips of every human being on the face of the Earth, no matter what interests them? Sound impossible? Well, if you can solve any of…
Will Our Pets Be In Heaven Waiting For Us? A Meditation on Creation
If you, like me, love dogs and cats, you’ve probably wondered what happens to them when they die. This question was again in my mind yesterday as our beloved black Lab, Twister, died of a ruptured spleen. We rescued Twister when he was five after his master, who used him as a gun dog and…
Surprise! Bible Spares No One in Old or New Testaments From Deserved Criticism
When marketers prepare advertising for new products, they only talk about the claimed benefits, while ignoring any possible criticisms. Same with political campaigns that portray their candidates in only the most glowing of terms, and historical revisionists seeking to coverup their particular heroes’ flaws. But that’s not the approach of the Bible’s authors in either…
Praying For Life At The Supreme Court October 2
We are asking anyone and everyone who cares about the sanctity of human life to join us for a prayer gathering in front of the United States Supreme Court on October 2, 2021 at 2pm EDT. The event is to usher in the 2021-2022 SCOTUS term that could prove to be a monumental year for…