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: How To Have A Civil Debate
These are tough times to have civil debates on controversial issues of public policy that encourage consensus and cooperation, without things getting overly heated as logic and facts go out the window, replaced by snarky passion and rhetorical gotchas that divide. Nowhere is the need for preserving civil discussion and debate more important than on…
Here’s Two (FREE!!!) Books That Can Change How You Think On … Everything
More than 200 people so far have taken advantage of HillFaith’s offer of two free books, either of which could absolutely change the way you view the world, yourself and your daily life, the people around you, and, most importantly, the man named Jesus. One of the books — “More Than A Carpenter” by Josh…
Today is the Birthday of the Man Who Abolished the Slave Trade
By Bill King Today is the birthday of William Wilberforce. Abraham Lincoln once said Wilberforce’s name is one that every schoolboy should know. Yet I suspect it is a name that many of you will not recognize. Wilberforce was a member of the British Parliament for nearly three decades in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s. Over his…
Would Christians Be Justified in Using Fake Vaccine Passports?
His name is Doug Wilson and he is the author of the “Blog and Mablog” web site that is occasionally controversial, always insightful, sometimes outrageous, other times wry, and in this particular case, highly relevant. A philosopher of a reformed/evangelical bent who worked with atheist Christopher Hitchens in a televised series of debates on the…
HILLFAITH STUDIES: Jesus’ Seventh Great ‘I AM’ Claim – ‘The True Vine’
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser … I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.” – John 15:1,5 One of the most familiar maxims about living and…
The Most Frequently Heard Fallacy of the Anti-Christian Skeptic
Here’s betting you’ve never heard of Sir Richard Whately. Even so, Erik Manning of Is Jesus Alive? explains why Whately is a 19th Century logician and churchman who is very much worth knowing about: “Richard Whately (1 February 1787 – 8 October 1863) was a brilliant guy. He was an English academic, rhetorician, logician, philosopher,…
THINK ABOUT THIS: The Goldilocks Principle and Earth
By Jeff Miller, Ph.D. Do you recall the story of Goldilocks from your youth? She struggled as she sought the right porridge, chair, and bed, but in the end, her discoveries were “just right.” The Goldilocks Principle in secular cosmology is a recognition by scientists that the Earth appears to be “just right” for life…
THE CHOSEN: Healing the Leper
Jesus performed many miracles during His three-year ministry on Earth, including healing a leper, as described in Matthew 8: 1-4, which tells us: “When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him. And behold, a leper came to him and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.’…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Grady Austin is taking the challenges of being a Legislative Assistant in the office of Rep. Tom Rice (R-SC). Grady was previously a Legislative Correspondent for the South Carolina Republican. Grady received his Master of Public Administration from Clemson University in 2019 and his BA in Political Science and Government in 2017…
HILLFAITH STUDIES: Jesus’ Sixth Great ‘I AM’ Claim – “The Way and the Truth and the Life”
“Jesus said to him: ‘I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No man comes to the Father except through me.’” – John 14:6 When Jesus tells His disciples that He “is the way and the truth and the life,” He is literally only hours away from His arrest, multiple trials, crucifixion and…