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.
‘He Has Sent Forth Hither Swarms Of Officers’
As reported by Washington Free Beacon’s Graham Piro: “Los Angeles County fined the church locked in a legal struggle with the county $1,000 for allegedly misplacing signs regarding coronavirus guidelines.
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ Up On The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Closing several professional loops is Brett William Doyle, the new Senior Adviser to Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) on the Congressional Oversight Commission. The move marks Brett’s return to the Hill after stints at EPA and the USTR. Previous to those slots, he worked for Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) on the Senate Republican…
These Ancient Secular Historians Explode The Recurring Myth That Jesus Never Actually Existed
There is a claim that comes and goes in public forums among critics of Jesus that contends there never was an actual person by that name who did the miracles described in the Gospel and who ultimately was crucified on a Roman cross, buried in a grave donated by a rich man and resurrected three…
China Bans Christian Funerals
China’s communist government has expanded its ban on Christian funerals in recent months, continuing to use laws prohibiting religious activities outside of churches to also outlaw religious-themed ceremonies for the dead, according to Christian Headlines.
Why Does God Allow Evil To Exist?
What can you say to the grieving parents of a child who was kidnapped and murdered? Or to the wife and children of the loving Dad who was killed by a drunk driver? And how do we account for natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that take thousands of lives? These painful questions…
TESTIMONIES: Jonathan Bernis Knows He Will Be Seeing His Brother Again
What do you do when you’ve been invited to a Bible study, but it’s pouring down rain outside and your only transportation is your motorcycle? If you’re Jonathan Bernis, you get on the bike and for reasons that you don’t understand at the time, you ride through the downpour, arriving at your destination absolutely totally…
Things Got Hilarious When This Atheist Encountered A Blessedly Blunt Christian
There are no short cuts to either thoughtful faith or reasoned non-belief. Comedian Jeff Allen shares how he learned that particular lesson on life’s spiritual journey: PAUL SPOKE ON MARS HILL. HELP ME SPEAK ON CAPITOL HILL. BE A PRAYER PARTNER. IT’S TAX DEDUCTIBLE. DON’T MISS THE FREE BOOK OFFERS IN THE SIDEBAR! EVERY…
WHAT DO YOU THINK: Can God Create A Rock So Heavy Even He Can’t Lift It?
If the answer to the question in the headline above is “no,” then there is something God cannot do, which means He isn’t omnipotent and the biblical claim that “all things are possible” with Him is false. But, as cross-examined.org’s Dr. Frank Turek explains in the following video in response to a student’s question, there…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said: “Your sins are forgiven.” — Luke 7:48 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 level with the man who says he is a poached egg —…