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.
THINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said: “This is my command: Love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down His life for His friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you.” — John 15:12-13 Photo by Melanie Sosa on Unsplash. And C.S. Lewis…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Should We Seek To End Economic Inequality?
There are many in America who, upon seeing a thin person and an obese person talking with each other, immediately conclude that the obese individual got that way by taking advantage of the thin one. So should doing away with all economic inequality be a priority for the just society? The Colson Center’s Brook McIntire…
Can The Truth Be Known With Any Enduring Certainty?
On Tuesday in this space, Dr. Frank Turek of cross-examined.org engaged a sharp but unidentified young man in a stimulating discussion about whether people are born with a moral compass. Today, J. Warner Wallace of cold-casechristianity.org picks up where Turek left off and deals with the question of how can we know with confidence that…
EMERGING ISSUES ON THE HILL: Another California Church Sues To Protect First Amendment Rights
A small mostly Hispanic Christian congregation in La Habra Heights, a suburban municipality a little south of Los Angeles, has filed suit in federal court seeking relief from illegal official harassment and excessive, unjustified fines. The harassment, according to Pastor Joe Garcia of World Aflame Ministries, is the work of La Habra Heights City Manager…
Is Every Man And Woman Born With A Moral Compass?
Everybody “just knows” murder is objectively wrong, as is genocide, and nobody doubts that torturing babies is everywhere and always absolutely, fundamentally immoral. Right? Right?? Believe it or not, there are those who would not agree with the preceding statement. They deny that anything like objective truth exists, that what we accept as “truth” is…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Answers To Three Objections To The Bible
It was written by a bunch of men. It’s full of mistakes. And it’s like, really, really old. So what is “it”? It’s the Bible, the most widely read and influential book in the entire history of mankind. The Bible gives a lot of folks heartburn with its teachings about the nature of God, man,…
FAMILY: New Study Finds Gender Wage Gap Fading, Fading, Fading …
It’s been a staple of political, economic and sociological analyses for decades that when a working woman marries and has kids, she suffers a loss of income, compared to unmarried peers. It’s the Gender Wage Gap and, while its calculation varies from year to year, there’s little doubt that it’s real, for whatever reasons. Now…
Philly Rioters Burn Vietnamese Baptist Church, Pastor Claims A Hard-Drive Miracle
When Vietnam Baptist Church Pastor Philip Pham first learned his congregation’s building was under assault by Philadelphia rioters and that the structure was in flames, his immediate reaction was to ask God to save a hard-drive. “I prayed right away: ‘God, please protect the hard drives,’” Pham told The Baptist Press (BP). “Other stuff can…
Sen. Jim DeMint Extols HillFaith
“I know just how indispensable congressional aides are. They have tremendous influence on America’s laws and they need to hear what HillFaith has, the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.” – Jim DeMint BECOME A HILLFAITH PRAYER PARTNER TODAY SO THAT: “Those who had no report of Him will see and those who have not…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said: “What comes out of a person, that defiles him. For from within, out of people’s hearts come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, lewdness, stinginess, blasphemy, pride and foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a person.” — Mark 7:20-23 Photo by Melanie Sosa…