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.
Even After Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Etc., There Are Still Moral Relativists?
If there are no absolute standards, justice is whatever anybody decides is ‘right for them’
HARD FACTS: And You Thought Water Was Just H2O?
Actually, water “is a supernatural liquid with 74 unique physical/chemical properties,” according to the eminent Brazilian chemist, Dr. Marcos Eberlin, during a video interview published by the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. “You look at this and you say ‘there is no color, there is no flavor, there is no smell,’ so you…
Here’s Why Eye-Witnesses Set Christianity Apart From All Other Faiths
And what about the maxim that when five people see the same car wreck, their individual accounts sound like they saw five different crashes?
Don’t Believe Miracles Are Real? This Will Make You Think Again
Few topics are greeted with greater skepticism than miracles, and no wonder, considering how often we hear of street-corner magicians, faith-healing hucksters and pyramid peddling get-rich-quick scammers. But miracles of many kinds have happened during the course of human experience and have been subsequently documented to a greater or lesser degree. Even so, skepticism is…
HARD FACTS: Your Computer’s Coding Requires Intelligent Design, So Why Not For The Universe?
Imagine that your life depends upon your finding one particular molecule among all the molecules that make up our galaxy, the Milky Way? Oh, and you are blindfolded. What are the odds? Well, according to molecular biologist Douglas Axe, who did the calculations, your odds of choosing the right molecule out of all the molecules…
THINK ABOUT THIS: What About The ‘Puddle Argument?’
Ever hear of the “Puddle Argument”? That’s the idea that if there is a puddle in the sidewalk, that just indicates that circumstances developed in the concrete in such a manner that it allowed rain water to accumulate. The fact the hole appeared and rain water filled it up over time doesn’t thereby demonstrate a…
Hong Kong’s Sea Of Protesters Part To Allow Ambulance Through; Moses Unavailable For Comment
Hong Kong’s population includes an estimated 7.5 million people, approximately two million of whom participated at the height of the protests that have grabbed world-wide attention. At one point earlier this week, something quite amazing happened: The sea of protesters parted to allow an ambulance to get to somebody in distress. As the ambulance passed…
The HUGE Gulf Between Accepting Christianity As Historically True And Knowing It’s About You
There are innumerable things we know but they don’t change the way we live on a day-to-day basis. Grass is green. You may appreciate it when you first see it in the Spring, but you don’t plan your days around that fact. The Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Good News, is not like that. It…
FIRST AMENDMENT: Supreme Court Delivers Huge Win For First Amendment, Tolerance
In a 7-2 decision with Justice Samuel Alito writing the opinion for the majority, the Supreme Court said Thursday that a Maryland memorial dedicated to the memories of 49 local residents who died in World War I does not violate the Constitution simply because a cross is its most prominent feature. “For nearly a century,…
THINK ABOUT THIS: 19 Ways Christian Churches Make America A Better Place For Everybody
If you work as a policy adviser for a senator or representative, consider this passage from Baylor University Professor Byron Johnson’s foreword to Glenn Stanton’s important new book, “The Myth of the Dying Church,” available now on Amazon or a bookstore near you. “Over the last several decades, thousands of studies published in peer-reviewed journals…