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: What of Christianity and the Spider Man Fallacy?
Archeologists discovered the Pool of Silom in the City of David area of Jerusalem in 2004. But does that discovery in and of itself prove that Jesus spread mud on a blind man’s eyes and told him to go wash in the Pool of Silom, whereupon his sight was restored, as told at John 9:1-11?…
Would the Real Bart Erhman Please Stand Up?
Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, there was an immensely popular evening quiz show on television called “To Tell the Truth” There was a panel of well-known folks who asked questions of three guests, each posing as a particular individual who did something noteworthy. When nobody on the panel correctly guessed which…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Molly Barlow continues a steady move upward, taking over as a Legislative Analyst/Policy Analyst for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on the majority staff. Molly previously was an Intern for the panel and before that worked as a Teaching Assistant for Georgetown University Law Professor Anthony Arend. Molly is a 2020 graduate…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: What Does ‘Tolerance’ Mean?
There likely is no more frequently repeated criticism of Christians and other defenders of traditional morals and standards of conduct in recent years than that they are “intolerant” or “judgmental” or “imposing your morals on everybody else.” But at the root of such criticisms is often a different definition of what it means to be…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Prominent Atheists Concede Creation Looks Intelligently Designed
By Kyle Butt, M.Div. The concept of creation by a supernatural Creator has been a powerful and persuasive aspect of truth since the beginning of time. The idea that there is no supernatural Creator, and that everything we see in the Universe—from hummingbirds to humans—has evolved through mindless, chance processes has been advanced in an…
DID YOU KNOW: The End of the Intelligent Design Debate Has Arrived
Brian Miller, reporting for Evolution News & Science Today, claims the debate that has raged for several decades over whether we evolved from primordial muck or are the products of an intelligent designer is just about completed. You may be surprised by who he declares the winner and from which scientific field come the grounds…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ on Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Chad Padgett shifts from being State Director for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to State Director for Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK). Prior to his BLM position, Chad was District Director for Rep. Don Young (R-AK). Chad is a 1993 graduate of Boise State University with a BA in Political Science and…