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.
Sex Matters. Here’s Why, Like You’ve Never Heard It Before
The headline says it all, so I won’t delay you in getting to this superb Prager U. video by Prof. Sean McDowell of Biola University.
Guy Is Swallowed By Whale And Survives. You Doubted The Bible And Jonah?
South African diver Rainer Schimpf shares something with the biblical Jonah that few, if any, other people ever have — Schimpf was swallowed whole by a huge whale, then spit out, and lived to tell about it. In fact, it was all caught on video. Faithwire has this incredible story, via Barcroft Animals. https://youtu.be/ChcEb6mlEUo
Did You Hear The News? ‘Discovery Of Intron Functionality Interrupts Evolutionary Paradigm.’ You Gotta Read This!
For folks who aren’t biochemists, the headline above likely makes no sense, but Reasons To Believe’s Fazale Rana, who is a biochemist, is also a solid write who knows how to make complexity understandable. That’s fortunate for the rest of us because there is huge news on the biochemistry front that sounds like a potential…
She Asked If She’s Going To Hell When She Dies. How Would You Answer?
For all of our knowledge, there remains no definitive, testable, repeatable scientific answer to the question every person who ever lived asked themselves at least once: What happens to me after I die? Science deals with the material world, cause and effect, the repeatedly demonstrable. But death, at least as far as we know from…
Kneecaps Are Fragile! Where I’ve Been For The Past Week
Did you miss me? Probably not, but that’s okay. Just thought I would let you know why I’ve not been posting for the past week. While shoveling snow February 20, I suddenly fell and landed directly on my left kneecap. The kneecap was broken into four discreet pieces and required surgery to repair. The surgery…
This Millennial Woman Uses AI To Help Police ID, Track And Prevent Human Trafficking
What does a 16-year-old American traveling across Eastern Europe do when she sees young kids begging on the street and learns they are there because of Russian human traffickers? For Emily Kennedy, co-founder of Pittsburgh-based Marinus Analytics, that experience was her introduction to the horrendous world of human trafficking, which exists everywhere on Earth and…
Here’s Why Atheistic Evolution Lacks Logic (Note: That’s Atheistic, Not Theistic, Evolution At Issue Here)
Things, including people, tend to change over time and, according to the conventional wisdom of many of the top folks among the scientific and cultural elite, if you combine enough time with the right kind of matter and the phenomenon called “chance,” you get to evolution as an explanation of the origins of life on…
Why Did God Make Me A Lesbian?
There is an unfortunately tense debate in America on homosexuality and, thanks to the rise of politically correct intolerance in the public square, it is increasingly difficult to move the discussion in constructive directions. Congress is one of the major focuses in the debate and congressional staff on every side of the issues are called…
Two Guys Who Know Explain Why Jesus Must Have Died On The Cross
One of the most common objections to the New Testament account of crucifixion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is that He didn’t actually die, but rather somehow survived. There are variations in the argument but they essentially go on to claim Jesus was mistakenly assumed by his Roman executioners to be dead, He was…
New Testament, Archeology Agree, Pontius Pilate Was A Real Person
A commonly heard objection to the New Testament account of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the alleged absence of archeological evidence for various people, including the Lord Himself. This piece from Raphael Lataster, author of “There Was No Jesus, There Is No God,” is typical of the genre. Besides Jesus, cases…