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.
RIP: Ravi Zacharias
In many ways the first of the modern Christian apologists to breakthrough to mass media audiences, Ravi Zacharias passed away earlier today. He was 74. He founded RZIM — Ravi Zacharias International Ministries — in 1984. His daughter, Sarah Davis, tells us that earlier this year — just before he received the news his cancer…
For We All Stumble in Many Ways
Read this if you are tired of the partisanship, self-serving ambition, deception and hostility that seem so prevalent in Congress, the news media, the White House and the campaign trail. Bruce Cooper beautifully explains that there is another way.
Coach Tony Dungy Explains Why He Wins When He Is Second
Maybe you are different but I admire athletes and not just for what they do on the field of play. Ask any major league ball player or successful NFL coach or Indy 500 winner and most will tell you there is so much more off the field or track that is unseen by most of…
Thoughts On Light And Life
I’ve never been to Italy — two weeks in Scotland and England many years ago being my only experience of Europe —but Elizabeth Prata has been, specifically to Tuscany. As you may know, there is something about the light in Tuscany. It’s different, somehow. Prata looks at the light in Tuscany and from there to…
DID YOU KNOW? Moses’ Account Of Noah’s Ark Is One Of 200 Ancient Flood Accounts
Pretty much everybody has at least heard about Noah’s Ark and the great flood in the ancient world that destroyed all life except him and his family, plus the many pairs of every animal. Skeptics of the Bible and Christianity typically dismiss the flood account in Genesis 7 as the product of a localized disaster…
13 Reasons Mike Shreve No Longer Believes In Hinduism’s Karma Or Reincarnation
Mike Shreve followed a guru before his life was transformed and he became a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. Mike had for many years before believed in Karma and Reincarnation, two of the cornerstone myths of Hinduism. “Most teachers of the doctrine of karma agree that any negative or positive thing we do in…
Massive New Data Analysis Finds Counties With More Families Show Less Coronavirus
There is huge news in a just-published statistical analysis that found a negative relationship between the strength of a county’s social capital — including especially stable families — and coronavirus infections. That’s a good thing! Correlation is NOT causation, but the data showed there is a distinct correlation between more of one and less of…
On Long-Jumping Beetles, Those Fin-Tastic Dolphins And Shrimp With Infrared-Seeing Eyes
Right up front, let me say this post is not meant to spark an evolution vs intelligent design debate. I have my views, others have theirs and odds are good we don’t agree on every point. But one thing everybody can definitely agree on is there is an all-but-inexpressibly amazing degree of creativity, variety and…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who Is Movin’ Up On The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Rich Sheedy becomes Legislative Director for Rep. George Holding (R-NC) after serving in other jobs for the North Carolina congressman for nearly three years. Rich is a 2017 graduate of Emory University. Ask for Hailee Hampton if you have a scheduling question for Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX). Hailee comes to the position following…