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.
How To Sort Out The Facts From Falsehoods About The Resurrection Of Jesus
We human beings are such curious beings. Consider for example how we often deal with subjects we’d rather, for whatever reason, avoid, delay or simply ignore. It’s called rationalization. As we saw in Wednesday’s post, the vast majority of historians of the ancient world agree Jesus Christ was crucified, that his grave was found empty…
STAFF MOVES: Look Who Is Being Promoted On Capitol Hill This Week
Recent Staff Moves, As Reported By Legistorm: Donald Stevens is the new guy in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s office, serving as Counsel via Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). Stevens is a 2014 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School. He also earned an MA in history in 2010 from the University of Oregon and a BA…
How To Sort Out The Three Most Important Facts About Jesus’ Claim To Be Lord And Savior
Jesus said “I am the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the Father but through me.” (John 14:6) Think about that – He said He alone holds your ultimate destiny and mine in His hands. As C.S. Lewis famously observed: “A man who was merely a man and said the sort of…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Four Reasons That Show Christianity Is True
Here’s a fascinating approach for anybody who wonders about the answers to these three questions — why are they here, what is the purpose of their life and what happens to them when they die — because the answers to four other questions are all yes. That’s according to Dr. Frank Turek, founder of cross-examined.org…
Are You Hung Up On This Question: What About Those Who Never Hear About Jesus?
More than 2.3 billion people on this earth say they are followers of Jesus Christ, the religious leader who 2,000 years ago claimed that “I am the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the Father but through me.” But what about the other nearly five billion people who are followers of…
Cold-Case Expert Explains Why He Took A Close Look At Christianity
J. Warner Wallace, the NBC “Dateline” cold-case detective and career Los Angeles law enforcement expert, was asked recently what it was that prompted him to take a serious look at the evidence for Christianity. “We had been together about 18 years before she convinced me to go to church. I was more than willing but…
STAFF MOVES: Look Who’s Getting Promoted On Capitol Hill This Week
Recent Staff Moves, As Reported By Legistorm: Leslie Shedd is the new Communications Director for the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Republicans, working for Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the ranking minority member. Leslie earned her BA in political science and french from Clemson University in 2001 and her law degree in 2007 from the University of the…
Ota Benga And The Untold History Of Darwinism, Eugenics And The Roots Of Scientific Racism
You’ve almost certainly never heard of Ota Benga, a diminutive young man taken from the Belgian Congo early in the first decade of the last century, and literally put on display in New York City in a cage with a monkey. There is much discussion in America’s public forums about the country’s historic racism, with…
Should People Pray Through This Coronavirus Crisis? That Totally Depends On …
There was a minor flap in some quarters of the media and other precincts of the intelligentsia a few days ago when a news photo appeared of Vice President Mike Pence leading a White House meeting of the coronavirus task force in prayer. Among those disgusted/amused/outraged/otherwise non-plussed by the photo was evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne,…
Most Capitol Hill Aides Want To Work Remotely Until Coronavirus Crisis Passes
A small survey by Roll Call of congressional aides found a majority of them saying they support shutting down the Capitol complex and conducting all official business remotely. The survey was mailed to all aides March 10 and responses were accepted through March 12, according to Roll Call. A total of 135 responses were received,…