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.
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Does Technology Make Faith Obsolete?
Technology will solve all of our problems. No matter what the problem we face might be or how complex it seems, just give us enough time and sooner or later technology will provide a solution that makes life better. That’s the promise and there have indeed been so many problems solved, or seemingly solved in…
SUNDAY SONGS: ‘In Christ Alone,’ by Celtic Worship
Okay, I admit it, I am a MacFarlane on my mother’s side, so Loch Lomond remains strong in my background. And that perhaps explains why the Pipes are so oddly … beautiful. Enjoy.
A Cold-Case Detective Interrogates The New Testament Eyewitnesses
Detectives and journalists are in some crucial respects in the same business – determining what really happened in a given event and who did what and why in the course of it. That’s one of main reasons the work of J. Warner Wallace is so fascinating to me, an investigative journalist. Wallace may be the…
Can You Trust Those Genealogy Firms To Tell The Whole DNA Truth?
Millions of Americans in recent years have turned to the proliferating realm of companies that offer to tell you where your ancestors came from and how much of each ethnicity or nationality is found in your DNA. There are even firms that do the same thing for dogs, telling you that all 13 of the…
SATURDAY SPECIAL: Skillet’s Cooper On America Changing The Definitions Of Good And Evil
John Cooper of the Christian rock band Skillet watched the Grammy performance of female artists Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion graphically simulating sex on stage and saw something profoundly relevant and important to every person in America, not just those working on Capitol Hill. “You haven’t seen it, you don’t really need to it,…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said: “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes…
Does Science Disprove The Existence Of The Soul?
Toss this idea about science and the soul around your synapses for a spell: If we human beings are nothing more than material blobs that happen to have evolved over billions and billions of years from thoughtless single cells in the primordial mire to the sentient characters of today, how can there be a non-material…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up On The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Emily Taylor moves into the Communications Director slot for Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI). Previously, Emily was Communications Director for Republicans on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. Emily received her BA in Communications and Political Science from Charleston College in 2014. Max Green heads over to the Senate Appropriations Committee as…
Four Ways To Think About The ‘God Doesn’t Exist Because He’s Hidden’ Argument
If God exists, how come we never “see” Him? That’s a claim usually heard from self-avowed atheists, but it can also be the plaintive cry from the heart of the most convinced believer. “God, where are you?” is a question I have asked, too. Philosopher Kenneth R. Samples of Reasons to Believe takes up this…
No, ‘Ardi’ Isn’t The Missing Link, Either
World Magazine’s John Dawson reports on the research of a Texas A&M University paleontologist who, upon examining the bones of the most recent candidate for evolutionary theorists’ desperately sought missing link, concluded that it doesn’t fit: “Scientists are rethinking a famous fossil often used to illustrate the Darwinian story that humans descended from apes. According to…