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.
INTELLIGENT DESIGN: If There’s A Code, There’s Gotta Be A Code-Maker
Biochemist Fazale Rana’s boyhood hopes to become a major league baseball player ended when he moved up to the Babe Ruth League and discovered he couldn’t read the code. The “code” in Rana’s case was the indicator in the third-base coach’s stream of signs to him just before he stepped into the batter’s box. Among…
Why ‘Water Bears’ May Present An Unsolvable Dilemma For Survival Of The Fittest Advocates
No, this post is not about polar bears or Alaskan brown bears, even though they do spend a great deal of time in the water. This post is about the tiny anthropods known as “Tartigrades” that are found in waters around the Earth, including those that are freezing and those that are quite warm. Doesn’t…
Moved By Compassion, Jesus Put Forth His Hand And The Leper Was Healed
Here’s the backstory to the amazing encounter of a hurting Hill aide and a searching Vietnam veteran
‘Goodness Of God’ And Why I’m Counting My Blessings On This Lovely Fall Sunday
A great love song captures a moment of realization about the beloved and why they are. Such a song is Bethel Music’s “Goodness of God,” as sung by Jenn Johnson. Photos like the one below can, too, in a sense. I can hardly ever listen to this beautiful music without being overwhelmed by the realization…
Christian Comedian John Crist Admits His ‘Destructive And Sinful’ Behavior, Cancels Tour
Christian comedian John Crist has admitted to “destructive and sinful” inappropriate sexual relationships, excessive drinking, and sex addiction, according to Charisma News. This is the statement Crist provided the publication when its editors contacted him for comment on the extensive evidence they accumulated for their story (emphasis added in fourth graph): “Over the past number…
One Very Stark Photo Shows Why Politics Matters Whether Or Not You Are A Christian
Believe it or not, there are actually millions of our fellow Americans who think politics is not something they need or want to think or care about. What Congress, the President and the courts do every day is just not very important to them. These folks include devout fundamentalist Christians, people who go to church…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Honestly, Are You Really As ‘Good’ As Your Dog? Seriously?
There is a magnetic thingie on our refrigerator that says “Lord, help me today to be the person my dog thinks I am.” I swear that, once as I gazed at those words, Twister, our black Lab, gave a dog chuckle, the muttered “Fat chance.” I know that’s what he said because we “get” each…
New Biopic Reveals Faith That Led This Courageous Freedom Fighter To Liberate Slaves
Can you guess what location this describes? “These environments were hostile in so many ways for a person who may or may not have had shoes on, or warm clothing, or a place to sleep. They had to really hide themselves in bushes and marshes. It’s incredible what they were able to do to survive.”…
Here Are Three Reasons To Reject Christianity
Bet that headline caught you by surprise. After all, why would it appear on HillFaith, which is devoted to sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ with the men and women who work on congressional staffs? Okay, I admit it, I’ve been a little deceptive. The post on iApologia by Daniel Currier I am about…
SUNDAY THINK ABOUT THIS: This Exo-Planet Avoided Being Engulfed By Its Red Star. Is This A Miracle?
Right at the outset, let me make it clear that, being a journalist by profession, I stake no claim to expertise in physics, astronomy or any related science. So I could be totally off-base here. But let’s give it a shot anyway, okay? Material processes function according to either known laws, or laws to be…