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: Are You Breathing God’s Air While Denying He Even Exists?
“Imagine a person who comes in … and argues ‘no air exists’ but continues to breathe air while he argues. “Now intellectually, atheists continue to breathe — they continue to use reason and draw scientific conclusions [which assumes an orderly universe], to make moral judgements [which assumes absolute values] — but the atheistic view of…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Why Are So Many Young People Unhappy?
Maybe it’s not you or anybody you know working on Capitol Hill, but the data makes it clear that young people, especially college students and those who have graduated in recent years, are indeed, overall, more unhappy than previous generations. Why is this? We live in the most prosperous, most technologically advanced and best educated…
The Flaw That Isn’t In The Paley Argument That A Watch Requires A Watchmaker To Be Created
Watches don’t just magically appear out of nothing or assemble themselves without any outside assistance, therefore there must be a watchmaker doing what scientists and philosophers today call “intelligence design.” The preceding paragraph is a modern restatement of William Paley’s Watchmaker argument for the existence of God. Just as the watch requires a watchmaker, the…
NOW SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: Cave Art And Comic Books Or Another Look At Human Exceptionalism
Comic books never did much for me but there is no doubt that they are among the most influential kinds of literature and have been for decades. But did you know they go all the way back cave art? Me either. Leave it to biochemist Fazale Rana to lay this out in a fascinating post…
STAFF MOVES: Look Who’s Being Promoted On The Hill This Week
Recent Staff Moves, As Reported By Legistorm: Aryn Fields is now Communications Director for Rep. JaHana Hayes (D-CT). Previously, Aryn was Press Secretary for Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) and before that interned in the personal staff office of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY). She is a 2018 MA graduate in political communication from American University and she…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Why A Great Archeologist Came To See Luke As A First-Rank Historian
“Sir William Ramsay, one of the greatest archeologists ever to have lived, was a student of the German historical school, which taught that the Book of Acts was a product of the mid-second century AD and not of the first century, as it purports to be. “After reading modern criticism about the Book of Acts,…
EMERGING ISSUES ON THE HILL: Great News For Kids! The Nuclear Family Is NOT Disappearing
It’s almost a truism among academics, the mainstream media commentariat and many Washington policymakers that the nuclear family — one married man and woman plus their kids — is a dying institution in America. Not so, according to Institute for Family Studies (IFS) Senior Fellow W. Bradford Wilcox, writing recently in The Atlantic in response…
New Academic Survey Of Top Scholarship Declares The Quest For ‘Historical Jesus’ Failed
If you attended college at any time in the past several decades, odds are you were taught some variation of the claim the Jesus of the Bible cannot be documented in history, so the book is really nothing more than a collection of myths, fables and exaggerations written long after His death. But then this…
Sean McDowell Explains Why The Martyrdoms Of Jesus’ Disciples Are VIP Today
Among the most significant evidence from logic to support the credibility of the Gospels — Matthew, Mark, Luke and John — is the fact none of the original disciples ever disavowed their claims about Jesus’ life and miracles, including the Resurrection. The absence of any such disavowal, either documented or merely rumored, is not prima…
STAFF MOVES: Look Who’s Getting Promoted On The Hill This Week
Recent Staff Moves, As Reported By Legistorm: Jake Johnsen has set up shop as Chief of Staff for Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY). Jake is a 2009 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in political science. Natalie Johnson is now Press Secretary for Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ), moving up to the Senate side after…