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.
SCIENCE AND FAITH: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
What is the most basic question of all? How about “why is there something rather than nothing?” That’s even more basic than “why am I here” or “what is the purpose of my life?” Philosopher Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German polymath (i.e. extraordinarily smart person) and logician who said the most fundamental question of…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s *’Movin’ On Up’ On Capitol Hill
Courtesy of Legistorm: Sarah Selip is the new Communications Director for Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA). Sarah was previously founder of 917 Strategies and before that a public relations strategist for Shirley & Bannister. She earned her BA in public relations, advertising and applied communications from St. Vincent College in 2017. Taking the reins as Hispanic Media…
STAFF NEWS/EARLY EDITION: Long-Serving COS Is Praised By Boss After Nine-Year Run
With the average tenure of a congressional aide in a position traditionally being less than two years, it’s not often that we see somebody doing the same key job for the same Member of Congress for nearly a decade. Such a person is Mark Pettitt, the departing chief of staff for Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.)…
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Far More Historical Evidence For Jesus Than For Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism And Zoroastrianism
Did you know Buddha didn’t believe in God? Or that Hinduism’s chief character likely never existed? How about that a leading Islam apologist agreed Muhammed was 600 years too late to be credible on Jesus’ death? And what do we make of the 1,000 year range in which Zoroaster may have been born? All good…
There Are Eight Kinds Of Digital Churchgoers. Which One Are You?
Bet you didn’t know there are eight distinct kinds of churchgoers during this digital interregnum between the Camelot of President Donald Trump’s “Greatest Economy Ever, That I Can Tell You” and the official end of the Coronavirus Pandemic. Mollie Hemingway, senior editor of The Federalist and frequent wise counselor on Fox News, breaks out these…
HARD FACTS: There’s More Than One Way To ‘Trust The Science’
If you work in any position on Capitol Hill, here’s a must-read analysis by True Horizon’s Bob Perry of what is likely the most frequently repeated truism of the coronavirus pandemic. Click on the last line below to read the rest of Perry’s post: “I have made the case before that scientism is a dangerous belief…
MYTH BUSTERS: 15 Ways Pagan Myths Resemble Jesus, But That Doesn’t Mean What Skeptics Claim
It’s an oft-heard tale these days that Jesus was just a “copy-cat” god, thanks to multiple characteristics of existing pagan deities of His day that the fabricators of the Christian myth allegedly “borrowed.” Such claims have a whisk of credibility, thanks to the apparent depth of historical knowledge wielded by those making them. Probe just…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who Is *’Movin’ On Up’ On Capitol Hill
Courtesy of Legistorm: Rodney Hall is now the Military Legislative Assistant to Rep. Trent Kelly (R-MS) after serving in the same position for Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.). Rodney is a Major in the Mississippi Army National Guard and his service included deployments to Afghanistan, Syria and Kuwait. He earned his law degree in 2019 from the…
Four Commonsense Reasons God Must Exist
Apologetics Press’ Eric Lyons has a gift for expressing the complex in common sense language that makes the insights accessible to the rest of us. A great illustration of Lyons’ exercising his gift is this video of him discussing four reasons God must exist. “Either God exists or He doesn’t. There is no middle ground….