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.
SCIENCE AND FAITH: Are People Just Moist Robots?
By Drew Covert If evolution is true, then it is singularly responsible for life on earth. We are just material beings, nothing else. In fact, we don’t have free will, or the ability to make choices. We are just moist robots. But I think this evolution produces false beliefs. I’d never thought about this idea much until I heard…
Keeping Calm In The Post-Election Storm
By Bret Bernhardt Every two years, Washington and Capitol Hill usher in a season of change and transition following elections and the coming of a new Congress. By design, no one is exempt from this change. It may be that the member or candidate you work for or will work for has lost, retired, been…
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…