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 DO YOU THINK? Is There Really Such A Thing As ‘Sin?’
Breaking the law of man is one thing, but breaking the law of God is quite another. The former act makes the person doing it a criminal, with consequences that are temporal. The latter act makes the individual involved a sinner, with consequences that can be eternal. The law provides justice by requiring the criminal…
Justice Alito Declares ‘Religious Liberty Is In Danger Of Becoming A Second-Class Right’
Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito told Thursday’s meeting of the Federalist Society’s National Lawyer Convention that America’s First Amendment guarantees of religious liberty and freedom of speech are in grave danger, thanks in large part to state and local policies justified as responses to the Covid Pandemic. “The pandemic has resulted in previously unimaginable…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said: “Give, and it will be given to you; a good measure — pressed down, shaken together, and running over — will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.” — Luke 6:38 Photo by Melanie Sosa on Unsplash. And C.S. Lewis said:…
Archeologists Discover King David-Era Fort Of The Old Testament’s Geshurites
There is a reference in I Samuel 27 to David raiding towns and villages of the Geshurites, among others, during the year and four months in which he lived among the Philistines to escape the wrath of King Saul. The Old Testament was for centuries the only ancient reference to the Geshurites, but that appears…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: How Could God Be Good If He Ordered Old Testament Genocide?
They are among the most troubling of Old Testament passages for contemporary minds. I am referring to verses like Deuteronomy 2:34 and I Samuel 15:2-3 in which God ordered every Amalekite and Canaanite man, woman, child, cow, goat, etc. etc. utterly destroyed. Doesn’t sound like justice, does it? Well, maybe there’s more to these verses…
China Converting Christian Churches To Factories, Indoctrination Centers
Christian churches in China that decline to convert into propaganda tools for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are being destroyed, or converted into factories or “cultural centers” controlled by the government. “According to Bitter Winter, an outlet that monitors religious liberty violations in China, the restrictive government shuttered an old church in the southeastern province…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Does This Computer Algorithm Explain The Origins Of Life?
If you know anything about biochemistry, you know about “Beilstein’s Handbook of Organic Chemistry.” It is a database with 10 million or so data-points that provide pretty much whatever you need to know about any organic compound, according to biochemist Fazale Rana of Reasons to Believe (RTB). “The utility of Beilstein’s Handbook is endless and its…
MYTH-BUSTERS: Is Being ‘Good’ All That Matters To God?
It may be the most commonly heard response to the question of what do you have to do to get to Heaven: “Well, I’m basically a good person, so I’m pretty confident God will let me in Heaven when I die.” But think about it for a second. If being ‘good’ is the key standard,…
EMERGING ISSUES ON THE HILL: Supreme Court Asked To Block Nevada Covid Reg That Favors Casinos Over Churches
Attorneys from the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and representing Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley in rural Lyon County, Nevada, petitioned the Supreme Court Thursday to declare unconstitutional a state regulation that discriminates against churches. “Attempting to combat the spread of COVID-19, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak issued a series of executive orders that restrict personal liberties,” the…