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.
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…
THINK ABOUT THIS: If There Are Aliens In The Universe …
Would it undermine the Bible’s account of creation in Genesis if we Earthlings woke up tomorrow to a close encounter of the totally unexpected kind?
APOLOGETICS: What Should We Think About Quantum Mechanics And The Laws Of Logic?
Right off, let me be clear that I am a journalist, not a philosopher or scientist, so the following discussion is that of an interested layman who makes no claims of special insight. That said, I often hear in discussions with atheists and agnostics that Quantum Mechanics (QM) renders much of the conventional wisdom about…
A SONG OF JOY: ‘Who You Say I Am’ By Hillsong Worship
It’s Sunday morning, June 16, 2019. No matter what you did last night or where you were, the problems, hopes, doubts, suspicions, dreams, fears, ambitions and worries you faced yesterday are likely all still here today. No, that’s not a negative, that’s a statement of reality. I know how it feels to wake up and…
APOLOGETICS: No, Hindu Avatars Aren’t ‘Just Like’ The Incarnation Of Jesus; It’s Not Even Close
Bhakti Hinduism’s Krishna devotees believe Vishnu is an avatar for Krishna, a god who as an avatar lived among human beings and who declared that “Although I am unborn, everlasting, and I am the Lord of all, I come to my realm of nature and through my wondrous power I am born” (Bhagavad Gita 4:6)….
JOBS: Here’s Nine Valuable Tips For Interviewing Well On Capitol Hill
You’ve followed up on that job lead from your college friend who now works on the Hill, you’ve prepared a relevant resume, found a good recommender, and you just got invited to meet with the hiring manager. Now, how do you make the best of that interview? Here are nine tips: First, there are a…
APOLOGETICS: Why Christianity Is A ‘Forensic Faith’
There are folks who think that having both Christian faith and a logical mind capable of critically evaluating competing truth claims is impossible, but not so, contends NBC “Dateline” Cold-Case Detective J. Warner Wallace. After all, Jesus said “you should love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and all…