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.
Palm Sunday: There Was A Time When Christians Were Dismissed As Atheists
Believe it or not, early in the decades following Jesus Christ’s crucifixion, burial and resurrection, His followers were considered unpatriotic atheists by the most powerful government in the world, Rome. As Ryan Leasure writes on The Poached Egg on this Palm Sunday, Roman Emperors expected subjects to bow down to the Roman pantheon of gods…
Are The Only Truths Those That Sense And Science ‘Verify’?
Some famous figure whose name escapes me at the moment once remarked on how many people go through life as slaves of long-dead philosophers, an observation that likely applies to all of us at one time or another. But if you consider the only truth to be those claims that are detected via the five…
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Committee Staff, Courtesy of R Street Institute’s Casey Burgat
There are basically two classes of congressional aides — those who work for individual senators and representatives make up one while those known as committee staff are the other. Casey Burgat is a senior fellow of the R Street Institute, which does a bang-up job of tracking Hill staffing trends. He recently completed a comprehensive…
Think Legislative Language Is Complicated? Check Out ‘Irreducible Complexity’ And Flagellum Motors
Biochemist Michael Behe introduced the concept of “irreducible complexity” with his 1996 book, “Darwin’s Black Box,” which made the case for the idea that there exists at the cellular level “a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes…
Have You Heard About The New ‘Consent Condom?’
One thing can be said for sure about capitalism and that is where there is a demand for a consumer product, there will be a producer to satisfy that demand if a profit can be made. Thus, the new “Consent Condom” from Argentinian firm, Tulipan. What is the Consent Condom? Glad you asked, particularly if…
How’d Your Brackets Do? Bet You Didn’t Know This About The UVA Coach, Tony Bennett!
University of Virginia Cavalier Head Basketball Coach Tony Bennett experienced the depths of disappointment last year when his team lost in the first round of the NCAA March Madness tournament to 16th-seeded UMBC. Now Bennett is on top of the world, having led his Cavaliers back to the March Madness and come back against Texas…
Could Jesus’ Disciples Have Been Fooled By A Con Artist?
Talk to enough colleagues on the Hill about Jesus and sooner or later one of them will tell you they don’t think He was resurrected because somebody came along three days after the crucifixion and conned the disciples by posing as the risen Savior. In other words, all this died and resurrected on the third…
If You Read Nothing Else This Weekend … Why Are Young Americans So Miserable?
It’s rare that an article speaks so directly and precisely to a whole generation but this piece — “Why Are Young Americans So Miserable?” —by Charles Fain Lehman of the Washington Free Beacon does so for the millions of men and women in the Net Generation. The “Net Generation,” by the way, is how my…
Can People In Hell Get Out? Are They Forced To Go There?
This may come as a shock to some working on the Hill but the idea of Hell as a place of eternal torment and punishment for evil acts committed by an individual during their life on Earth has been around as long as human beings have. From Mesopotamia comes the Gilgamesh epic and from the…
Why Are Christians So Afraid Of Subjective Moral Reasoning?
There are no moral absolutes, it’s all relative, and whatever “works for you is fine for you but what works for me is something completely different” may be as close as contemporary culture gets to what it regards as a “truth” that always and everywhere applies. Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias was asked the question posed…