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.
You Only Get One Shot To See ‘Against The Tide’
“Against the Tide: Finding God in an Age of Science” is a new documentary from Pensmore Films featuring Oxford Mathematics Professor Emeritus John Lennox and actor Kevin Sorbo, to be aired in more than 600 theaters across the country on November 19. Lennox has debated the world’s most well-known atheists around the world — including…
Here’s Why The Case For God Isn’t A ‘God Of The Gaps’ Explanation
There is a a frequently heard claim by prominent atheist advocates like Sam Harris that Christians who argue for the existence of God are merely using God to explain the gaps in human knowledge about how the universe came to be, the origin of life, and other mysteries. “Hey, we don’t understand how the world…
DOJ Warns San Francisco Officials They Can’t Limit Church To One Congregant At A Time
Department of Justice officials have warned San Francisco authorities that their decree limiting church attendance in the “City by the Bay” to one person at a time is unconstitutional and a violation of every San Franciscan’s right to freedom of religious practice. In a September 25 letter to Mayor London Breed, Assistant Attorney General for…
Here’s Why You Are The Very Best Evidence That God Does Exist
“It’s important to have reasons for what you believe. ‘If only God gave me a sign’ is a common thought people have if they are still unsure if God exists. And fair enough — it doesn’t make sense to ‘just have faith’ and throw reason out the door. “But what if the best evidence for…
Humans Wrote The Bible, So Can It Be Trusted? How About Darwin’s Origin Of The Species?
If you’ve heard it once, you’ve probably heard it often: The Bible was written by a bunch of fallible human beings, therefore it cannot be taken at face value as true and accurate. Here’s the logic train: Humans are fallible. The Bible was written by humans. Therefore, the Bible is fallible. That logic train, by…
What Roman Eyewitnesses Said About Death By Crucifixion
Just in case you think there is even the remotest of chances that Jesus survived the crucifixion, was revived in the coolness of the tomb, then somehow managed, despite having suffered grievous wounds, extreme shock and loss of blood, to move the huge stone that sealed the tomb, and, finally, overcame a crack unit of…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said: “I assure you, unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” — John 3:3 And C.S. Lewis said: “A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the…
China Rewrites Jesus With The Woman Caught In Adultery
Among the best-known passages in the New Testament are those in the Gospel of John describing Jesus’ encounter in the temple in Jerusalem with a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) doesn’t like that version of the incident, according to Christian Headlines, so the order went…
AG Barr Decries Lost Link Between Religious Faith, Individual Liberty
Attorney General William Barr told the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast earlier this week that “separation of church and state” may be the most misunderstood principle of government and the U.S. Constitution. “That crucial link between religion and liberty, so well understood at the Founding, is all too often forgotten today. In American public discourse, perhaps…