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: “If anyone wants to be my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me and the Gospel will save it.“ — Mark 8:34-35 And C.S. Lewis said: “A man who…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who Is ‘Movin’ On Up’ On The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Eric Shalloway is moving up to Staff Assistant for Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), after serving the Florida representative as an Intern. Eric received his BA in public policy earlier this year from the University of Maryland at College Park. Danielle Cohen is the new Communications Director for Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR). Danielle previously…
Democrats Dominate Top 50 House Members On Staff Spending; Check Out Major Position Average$
Democrats occupy 21 of the top 25 and 35 of the top 50 slots in a ranking of how much each member of the House of Representatives in the 116th Congress has spent through the first quarter of 2020 on salaries for staff members, according to data compiled by Legistorm. Rep. Ted Deutsch (D-Fla.) ranks…
Are Moral Truths More Reliable Than The Claims Of Science?
The headline above no doubt strikes more than a few of its readers as impossible to prove or, worse, just plain non-sensical and therefore not worthy of serious consideration. But, as Erik Manning asks in a recent post, which of the following two statements put forth by Christian philosopher J.P. Moreland would you say is…
Yes, Your Smartphone Illustrates Why Design Requires A Designer
“Have you ever composed a text message on your smartphone and had the app suggest the next word? It is amazing that, many times, the app is correct. How does it work? By sheer chance? Or by reading your mind? “The fact that technology can often predict the next word you are going to type…
No, God And The Flying Spaghetti Monster Are Not The Same
Among the most powerful ways of demoralizing or belittling an opponent is to mock their position. It’s not one I recommend, but it is the source of a particular kind of argument one hears from time to time from atheists in discussion with Christians. “Believing in God makes about as much logical sense as believing…
‘Critical Theory’ Is A Disastrous, Unbiblical Worldview
This is a lengthy discussion between journalist Allie Beth Stuckey and Christian apologist/theoretical chemist Dr. Neil Shenvi on “Critical Theory.” If you have a pulse, active brain waves and have watched TV or participated in social media in recent months, you’ve been surrounded by commentary and analyses derived from Critical Theory or one of its…
China Forcing Poor Christians To Choose Between God And The State
Christian citizens in China who receive social welfare payments have been ordered to abandon their faith or risk losing government support, according to a new report described by Christian Headlines.
All about clouds!
Bet you didn’t know clouds were so prominent in the world’s oldest and most widely read book:
THINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said: “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live. Everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die — ever.” John 11:25. And C.S. Lewis said: “A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said…