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.
Fermi’s Paradox And Why Can’t The ‘Fine-Tuning’ Of The Universe Have Some Slack Here And There?
You may have heard of Enrico Fermi. He’s the Italian physicist who invented the first nuclear reactor. He also asked a rather pointed question that ought to challenge the best thinkers among advocates and critics of intelligent design. That question — AKA “Fermi’s Paradox” — is simply this: If the universe is infinitely old, or…
God And Mathematics Are Why The Universe Adds Up
Being a journalist by trade, I am a right-brained person. That’s why I never did well in mathematics in school, except for Geometry where the spatial relationships seemed to make intuitive sense to me. Maybe if I had studied more … Anyway, you may not know this but mathematics is the foundational blueprint for reality….
China’s Theology And Persecution | Linda Burkle, PhD
American Christians who are unable when and how they regather in their church assemblies are only now getting a tiny taste of the persecution that is a daily reality in China. Dr. Linda Burkle, writing on Bruce Cooper’s Reasoned Cases for Christs, offers these insights into the increasing oppression being focused by Beijing on Christians…
Is Earth Just A Pale Blue Dot In A Hostile Universe?
Look back at Earth from the furthest distance you can imagine in our solar system and it does indeed look like a pale blue dot in the vast blackness of the universe. So why on this one pale blue dot among the billions and billions of galaxies and stars and planets is there human life?…
The Nature Of The Battle: Knowing The Enemy
By Bret Bernhardt As followers of Jesus working on Capitol Hill, how are we to view the tumultuous events that have unfolded before us across the country? This is an important question because we are seeking to integrate our faith into our daily practice. It helps shape our views about public policy but also our…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Do You Think ‘Nothing’ Caused Our Universe To Exist?
It’s among the most basic questions of all and how we each answer it shapes our thinking on everything else, often in ways we don’t realize. And it involves the most basic law of logic, non-contradiction, as well as the law of cause and effect. In the following video, Kyle Butt of the Apologetics Press…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s ‘Movin’ On Up’ This Week
Making the big jump from the Illinois House Republican Caucus to Capitol Hill is Aaron DeGroot, who is the new Communications Director for Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill). Aaron is a cum laude graduate in economics from George Mason University in 2015. Maura Weaver is the new Scheduler for Rep. Donald Norcross (D-NJ), following a three-month…
WHAT DO YOU SAY? Is Gender Merely A ‘Social Construct’ Or An Enduring Biological Reality?
You can hardly listen to the news or watch a cable series without being told multiple times in multiple ways that gender is a “social construct,” not a biological reality. But then when you dig a little deeper, you will also be told that a significant number of men and women are “born into the…
HILLFAITH SURVEY: Do You Think Congress Needs To Increase Each Member’s Staff?
With congressional staff beginning to return to Hill offices in some numbers and many more still working from home, the question of whether senators and representatives need larger personal staffs is likely to get more attention in coming months. Thanks to COVID-19, many staffers accustomed to doing jobs on the legislative or media side have…
Are You An Oppressor Or Among The Oppressed? Is ‘Critical Theory’ Biblical?
Contrary to what is being claimed in some quarters, Critical Theory — the driving worldview behind the pervasive claim America is through and through a racist society ruled by “White Privilege” — is not consistent with the biblical understanding of reality. The Bible does define racism as sin and tells us “there is neither Greek…