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.
**Why I Don’t Have Enough Faith, Science Or Logic To Not Believe God Exists
Science and logic are wonderful pursuits, they have been the means for countless blessings to all of us, and I cannot imagine what civilization would be like without them. And, while I don’t even remotely claim to be particularly proficient in any of those three pursuits, there are facts about which I become more convinced…
Here’s Something To Be REALLY Thankful For This Thanksgiving
If you are reading this post on HillFaith, odds are excellent that you are alive and breathing, thinking, talking. Even if you are going through rough times, being alive is the one thing we can all be thankful for on Thanksgiving. But do you know what the odds are against any of us being alive…
New Index Finds Huge Majorities Of Americans Back Religious Freedom In Public And Private Life
Massive majorities of Americans across the political spectrum support maximum toleration and accommodation of religious practices in the public and private realms, according to a newly launched annual survey. The accompanying chart dramatically demonstrates that support for religious freedom is overwhelmingly bipartisan, cutting across the ideological and party spectrums. The yellow areas indicate opposition, while…
Task Force Says Congress Needs Bigger, Better-Paid Staff
Congress, as the First Branch, has the power of the purse, but not enough staff to carry it where it needs to go
And Then Linus Actually Drops His Blanket. Can You See Why?
Hat Tip to crosswalk.com for pointing this minor little detail that is so full of meaning even after all these years since “A Charlie Brown Christmas” first aired.
Reasons The Appearance Of Design In Biology Means There IS A Designer
Two aliens from a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, Earth’s nearest star beyond our Sun, walk into a bar in Amsterdam arguing about Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch,” which they just saw at the Rijks Museum. After a few minutes of intense debate, one alien looks at the other and announces “say what you will, but I’m…
THINK ABOUT THIS: The Kalam Cosmological Argument For God
It’s Friday, the impeachment hearings are done for now, the Thanksgiving Recess has begun and your boss is likely heading back to his or her home district or state. So, unless you are headed there, too, you can breathe a little today, right? So take five minutes and consider this simple, logical, three-step argument for…
STAFF MOVES: These People Are Climbing The Ladder On The Hill
Recent Staff Moves, As Reported By Legistorm: Suzanne Lane is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s new digital director, moving over from her previous slot with the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Suzanne is a 2015 graduate of the University of South Carolina with a B.A. in political science and government. Kayla Rillo moves over to…
Since When Is It Illegal To Pray At The White House???
Richard Patten didn’t just fall off a turnip truck on a Washington, D.C. street day before yesterday. The man has been a mover and shaker on the conservative side of things in this town for a long time. Patten is also a Christian and he loves this country. For years, he’s been going to the…
This Woman’s Story Will Make You Weep … Until You Hear The End
What do you do with this? “When I was two, my mom left me on the doorstep of a dope man’s house and she never came back. She left us there on promises that she would come back to pay for the drugs, and she never came back.” Billy Hallowell, writing at FaithWire, tells us…