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.
Here’s The Truth About Why U.S. Evangelicals Back Separation Of Church And State
There is a myth being circulated in American politics these days that evangelical Christians want to do away with the separation of church and state so they can impose their “Christian Nationalist” version of a theocracy on the country. Those who push the myth thereby betray a fundamental ignorance of what evangelical Christians actually believe…
The Washington Nationals Are World Series Champs!
“This October has been an out-of-body experience for Washington baseball fans, who seem to levitate over their world, barely believing what they are seeing, game after game, series after series. “But they should, the entire sports world should, because this has been going on since May 24. Since then, including playoffs, the Nats have gone…
If You Think Aliens May Exist, God Can Get To You, Too
Read that headline again because it probably doesn’t suggest what you thought it did the first time through. That is, it’s NOT suggesting that if you think there are little green men somewhere “out there,” you must also believe God exists. Now, check out this logic from Timothy Fox, one of the proprietors of the…
What About Editing The Human Genome? How Long Till Congress Must Act?
Gene-editing or altering DNA to achieve a desired change in the characteristics of a person yet to be born, is a technology that holds both great promise for bettering the human condition and of creating, unintentionally or otherwise, bio-monsters capable of unimaginable horror. Molecular biologist Anjeanette Roberts points out on the Reasons to Believe blog…
THINK ABOUT THIS: What The Movie ‘Groundhog Day’ Points To On Biblical Prophetic Accuracy
If you remember or have seen the 1993 movie “Groundhog Day” with Bill Murray and Andie McDowell as the two lead characters, you know he’s local TV reporter, she is his producer and he becomes trapped in a day-long time loop. And of course, he falls in love with her, but she’s skeptical when he…
There Are Good Reasons Why Everybody Agrees The Universe At Least Appears To Be Fine-Tuned
Some Washington political sage whose name I long ago forgot once remarked that when you see a tree covered with big, juicy red apples, you can pretty much count on it being an apple tree. So why shouldn’t the same logic apply when we encounter a universe in which hundreds of factors must be finely…
SUNDAY THINK ABOUT THIS
“Mark Twain had a point when he concluded that it was not the parts of the Bible he did not understand that bothered him—but the parts he did understand!)” ― Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek, I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist
WORKING ON CAPITOL HILL: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up
Recent Staff Moves, As Reported By Legistorm: Matt McNally now occupies the chief of staff’s office for Rep. Sean Maloney (D-NY) after two years in Gotham City as director of its federal affairs operation. Previously, McNally was communications director for Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.). He is a Roger Williams University graduate. Jacob Stubbs has his…
How Could Jesus Be God If He Didn’t Know This One Date?
Jesus told His disciples that He would be coming back to this Earth and when He does “every knee shall bow and … every tongue will confess” that He is Lord. But nobody, not even Him, knows when that will happen? It turns out in scripture that only God the Father knows when God the…
Evolution Has Answers For Many Of The Most VIP Questions But What About Those It Doesn’t?
Right at the outset, let me make it clear that in my view it is reasonable to conclude that some form of evolutionary process was used by God to create life. Scripture says a day is like a thousand years for God, so the time issue isn’t the show-stopper many think it is. But claiming…