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.
No, Quantum Physics Doesn’t Explain How the Universe Was Created
Right off the bat, allow me to make it clear I am a journalist by training, not a physicist, so I don’t claim any expertise regarding quantum mechanics. But as a journalist, I do have a fair amount of experience assessing the credibility of claims, including the one often posed by atheists that the universe…
The ‘Minimal Facts’ Evidence for the Truth of Jesus’ Resurrection
Philosopher Gary Habermas surveys the best scholarship, from scholars on both sides of the issues, on the evidence for and against the resurrection of Jesus as a literal, historical event and offers what he calls “the minimal facts” case. The minimal facts are those that just about everybody on both sides of the debate agree…
EXPLAIN THIS: Core Gospel Claims Were Made Soon After Jesus Death, Resurrection, Not Decades Later as Myths and Fables
It is among the most common claims of skeptics who reject the literal resurrection of Jesus. It was all made up, they argue, many decades later by church leaders who relied upon unverified rumors, their imaginations, and pagan myths to invent what we know today as the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In fact, as philosopher…
Here’s the Key To Less Stressful Decision-Making on Capitol Hill or Anywhere Else
You work for a senator or a representative and he or she depends upon you to provide your best, most carefully considered advice on issues big and small, day in and day out. You take this responsibility seriously because you know the issues involved quite often are supremely important. But making decisions about such advice…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Are the Kids Really Fine?
If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times – “The kids will be fine.” Well, no, actually, the data is in and it shows overwhelmingly that, compared to the traditional nuclear family of Married Father and Mother, with their children, the kids aren’t going to be fine. As Katy Faust of the…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ Up On The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: In her first job on the Hill, Abbey Donaldson moves up from Intern for Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) to Press/Digital Assistant for Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA). Abbey earned her BA in History in 2020 from the University of Scranton. There’s a new Legislative Correspondent in the office of Sen. Todd Young (R-IN)…
Let’s Talk About That ‘Magic Sky Daddy’ Atheists Keep Bringing Up
Talk to an atheist about God and sooner or later (but probably sooner), you will hear the charge that people who believe He exists are actually just unable to explain some natural phenomenon, so they invent a “Magic Sky Daddy” or some variation thereof. It should be instantly noted that such a charge assumes that…
Tribute to the Biblical Archeologist Who Found King David’s Palace
There was a time when critics argued that the Old Testament’s King David was never a real person, that his story was just too full of fantastic deeds and trials to have been anything other than fables. Then, according to my friend and colleague, Quin Hillyer, in 2005 Israeli excavationist Eliat Mazar “discovered, on a…
WORKING ON THE HILL: Support Growing for Hill Staff Pay Hikes
A bipartisan coalition of advocacy groups spanning the ideological spectrum is calling on Congress to increase pay for staffers working for individual senators and representatives and for congressional committees. And for the first time in a long time, it appears more than a few members of the House of Representatives agree. The raises would come…
Now For Something Completely Different
Far-Right Apostle Paul Bans Teaching Critical Race Theory In Churcheshttps://t.co/8drGLeE77s — The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 11, 2021