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.
Here’s Why the Ancient Christian Record of Jesus is the Most Reliable
Critics for centuries have seized upon specific claims, features, names and silences in the New Testament about the life and times of Jesus Christ. An example of such claims is that of Luke concerning the Roman Governor of Syria, Quirinius, and the census that drew Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem to be registered. Millions of…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is Religious Freedom Just an Excuse to Discriminate Against Others?
There is a view that is common among academic and media types that people who passionately advocate on behalf of religious freedom are really just hiding their desire to discriminate against others behind the First Amendment. Aside from being a deeply cynical view, this contention fails to understand basic tenets of the Christian faith and…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said: “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ Up on the Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Tom Pietrykoski makes a big move up in Coryworld, moving from State Press Secretary for Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) to Deputy Communications Director. Tom received a BS in Environmental Studies from Montclair State University. Also making a significant move up is Tiffany Ge, being promoted from Legal Counsel to Legislative Director for…
Think About This: Here’s Why Atheism Makes Free Will Impossible
Let’s stipulate for the moment that atheists are correct when they claim there is no god, that the universe exists solely in a material form and that human beings were not created but evolved as a result of material processes. That is the conventional wisdom in the scientific community, as well as in popular culture,…
Eric Liddell’s Daily Prayer
Eric Liddell, the great Scots Olympic champion in 1924 and one of the central characters of the Oscar-winning film “Chariots of Fire” in 1982, spent the final years of his life in a Japanese internment camp where he died in February 1945, during the final year of World War II. Liddell, as he had promised…
MYTH-BUSTERS: No, the Gospels are not Fables, Like Peter Pan
When the Scots author James Matthew Barrie wrote “Peter Pan,” he set it in Neverland, a place where boys never have to grow up and they can fly. Sounds like a great place, right? But there are dangers in Neverland, too, because Captain Hook hates children and wants them all to have to walk the…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.” — John 14:27 Then C.S. Lewis said: “A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things…