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 Your Choice: Deterministic Scientific Materialism Or Free Will
Think about this question very carefully before jumping to your conclusion. Are we human beings products of: A. Billions of years of strictly material processes operating in predictable patterns that determine everything about us, including what we think, how we act and the desires in our hearts and minds? B. Or are we human beings…
WORKING ON CAPITOL HILL: Traveling The Hard Road
Working on the Hill can often be a tough road to hoe. One day you can do something that makes you look like the smartest person in the room, but then the next day you goof something up because you were still riding yesterday’s high. Keys to making it: Remember where you came from. Ask…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said: “Whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.” — Matthew 20:26-28 Photo by Melanie Sosa on Unsplash….
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Are We Morally Advanced Compared To Previous Generations?
Work on Capitol Hill and sooner or later (most likely sooner) you will be confronted with a response to the effect that your views are obsolete or “out of date” or even “reactionary.” In fact, that response is derived in great part from 18th and 19th century thinkers who believed the Renaissance and the Enlightenment…
WORKING ON THE HILL: Metro May Close Stations, End 3,800 Jobs
Legions of congressional aides get to and from Capitol Hill via Metro every workday, including during the Pandemic, so the prospect of multiple stations being closed and thousands of employees being let go could signal a major headache ahead. With a $500 million operating deficit, Metro officials are considering closing 19 stations, but it is…
DID YOU KNOW: Giraffes Have Huge Hearts. By Design Or By Chance?
Have you ever thought about the distance from a giraffe’s heart to its brain? Me, neither, until today anyway, when I watched the following video from Eric Lyons of Apologetics Press. Think about it, it’s approximately eight feet from the adult giraffe’s heart to its head. When the giraffe reaches up into trees to eat,…
Boxer Rebellion Revisited As China Set To Ban Foreign Missionaries
In a move recalling 1900’s Boxer Rebellion, officials in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA) are preparing to ban foreign missionaries from China. The “Foreign Religious Activities in the People’s Republic of China” draft rules released earlier this month provide 40 Articles covering virtually every aspect of missionary work in…
When Meeting Messiah Means Counting The Cost
How committed are you to what you believe? Would you still do it if you knew it would never make you rich? How about if you knew continuing it meant ostracism from family and friends? And what if you knew it might mean martyrdom? Those are the kinds of questions that often confront men and…
On The ‘Delicate Balance’ Between The Seen And The Unseen
My Canadian brother in Christ, Bruce Cooper, has a deeply insightful and personal discussion this morning comparing our experience in the routines of daily life with that of “Doubting Thomas,” the disciple who would not believe Jesus had been resurrected until he actually saw Him and touched Him. “Being a disciple of Jesus is kind…
SUNDAY SONGS: The Father’s House
Sometimes on this journey I get lost in my mistakes What looks to me like weakness Is a canvas for your strength And my story isn’t over My story’s just begun And failure won’t define me ‘Cause that’s what my Father does Yeah, failure won’t define me ‘Cause that’s what my Father does Ooh, lay…