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.
Five Reasons Christianity And Racism Are Absolute Opposites
If it were possible to have a society based entirely and solely on Christianity side-by-side with a society based entirely on racism, would they have anything, anything at all, in common? The answer is no. Christianity’s understanding of why we are here is so profoundly unlike the understanding of the many racist ideologies that have…
DID YOU KNOW? Here’s Why Jesus Is Nothing Like The Pagan Deities
Oxford Professor Emeritus John Lennox addresses a fascinating question: How are the countless pagan gods of the ancient world different from the God of the Bible who came among us as Jesus Christ? For one thing, Lennox points out, all of the pagan gods came from creation in some manner, out of the primordial soup…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said: “I tell you that on the day of judgement people will have to account for every careless word they speak. For by your words you will be acquitted and by your words you will be condemned.“ — Matthew 12:36-37 And C.S. Lewis said: “A man who was merely a man and…
What Does God Say About Race?
Race is front and center in the American mind these days as it has not been for many years. The news media is a cacophony of often clashing opinions about race and its proper significance in our nation’s history. It’s thus easy to find out what men think about race, but what about God? What…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s ‘Movin’ On Up’ The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Krister Holladay is back on Capitol Hill after a 14-year absence, coming over from K One Consulting LLC to serve as Chief of Staff for Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas). Back in the day, Krister was Chief of Staff to Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), and before that, during the Contract with America era, was…
Multi-Millionaire Was Spiritually Bankrupt. Then He Met Yeshua
“When tragedy struck Joseph’s family he was determined not just to fill his father’s shoes but to surpass everyone’s expectations and make a name for himself. Soon his financial company turned into a internationally traded bank and the press called him Midas. “But inside of all of his success he was empty and self absorbed,…
Antifa Thugs Threaten Violence Against Christian Street Preacher, Repeatedly Violate His Civil Rights
What happens when a young man seeking to share the Gospel on a Seattle street is confronted by aggressively hostile Antifa thugs presumably “protesting” against racial injustices like the killing of George Floyd by a now-former Minneapolis police officer? As the following video produced by CBN Contributor Chuck Helton makes obvious, the unnamed street preacher…
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Threatens to Take Adoptees from Parents, Send Them to ‘Camps’
Imagine that you and your spouse adopted an infant boy or girl and the federal government told you to stop going to church and practicing your Christian faith or risk having the child taken away from you. Or what would you do if the federal government informed you and every other member of your local…
EMERGING ISSUES ON THE HILL: Churches Defy California Guv’s Covid Restrictions on Multiple Worship Gatherings
Grace Community Church in Los Angeles County is the latest Christian congregation to challenge California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ban on religious gatherings in 30 Golden State jurisdictions. Grace is led by Pastor John MacArthur, one of the nation’s most influential evangelical Christian pastors and authors. His ministries encompass books, translations of the Bible, radio and…
Is Marriage Or Money The Better Explanation Of America’s Growing Class Divide On Happiness?
Professor Jean Twenge of San Diego State University recently conducted an analysis of 40,000 Americans over the age of 30, based on data compiled for the General Social Survey. Twenge’s findings may come as a shock to some because she said in a post for the Institute of Family Studies that the data indicates that…