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.
Blessed By New Friends From Real America
It’s not often that you get an email from somebody you don’t know telling you they read (and actually like!) your stuff, will be in D.C. the next day and wonder if they could stop by to say hello and introduce themselves. Of course I said yes and so I had the pleasure Tuesday of…
Have You Bowed Down To Your Smartphone Yet Today?
If the question posed in the headline above strikes you as curious or confusing, you aren’t alone. I was initially puzzled by the headline on the essay that prompted this post, too. Fr. Dwight Longnecker was in Italy recently where he paused to look around at the throng of people and noticed how “the universal…
HARD FACTS: Americans, And Most Everybody Else, Too, Are Becoming More Religious Today, Not Less
It is a commonplace in many of the most influential public policy precincts in the nation’s capitol these days — including among congressional aides working for senators, representatives and committees — that Christianity is in steep decline in America, that the country is fast becoming more secularized with every passing day. That certainly appears to…
THINK ABOUT THIS: A Letter From King David To Us In 2019
Imagine what we might be told if the most famous among the ancients like Socrates, King David of Israel or Alexander the Great had been able to sit down and write us letters of advice, based on their experiences. Louis Markos, Professor of English and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University, has an idea…
FIRST AMENDMENT: What’s With The Masked Guy In The ‘Science Uprising’ Videos?
Slowly but surely — very slowly, most of the time — the evidence for the reasonableness of Intelligent Design (ID) and illustrating major flaws in the case for evolution is beginning to get something approaching a serious look by serious people. Central to that development is the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, which among much else publishes…
Artificial Intelligence Church Founder Removes God From His Driver-less Cars Vision
This Silicon Valley inspired congregation believes “machines” will soon take over.
AND FOR SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT: From Sachi’s Socratic Dialogue With Kurosawa On Evil
By Willow Viney Sachi was having lunch in the hospital cafeteria with her mentor, Nurse Kurosawa. “Ma’am, please tell me, why does God allow evil? I don’t understand it.” Kurosawa put down her sandwich. “Hmm, you know that’s a fair question,” Kurosawa tapped her chin in thought, “Let me think for a moment how to…
It’s Too Late To Apologize, King George III, Old Boy
Imagine if Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Ben Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert Livingston of the Second Continental Congress were doing their thing today instead of in 1776. Naturally, they would make a music video. And, if they made a music video as a visual accompaniment to their draft of the Declaration of Independence to insure…
Happy Independence Day, America. Let Us Be A Nation Truly Worthy Of Its Pledge Of Allegiance
Even if you aren’t of the Boomer generation as I am, you may have heard of Red Skelton, a remarkably skilled mime/pantomime of the 1950s and 1960s, and a man who had the unique ability to make adults and kids alike laugh their heads off. Skelton was also an humble man, despite the abundant skills,…