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.
Here’s Why The Cross Is The Exact Opposite Of ALL Pagan Sacrifices
If in recent decades you’ve been to college or kept up with the public debate about the credibility and reliability of Christianity’s claims about Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection, you’ve likely heard the claims of a variety of skeptics that His death was a sacrifice just like those common among pagan religions. Stand To Reason’s Alan…
Yes, God Can Even Use Pink Floyd To Bring You To Truth
Rock legend Pink Floyd probably isn’t the first name that would come to mind if you were to ask 100 randomly selected professing Christians working on Capitol Hill or anywhere else who led them to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. The Poached Egg founder Greg West isn’t just anybody, however, and here…
How Could ‘Illiterate’ Disciples Write Jesus’ Gospels In Greek?
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxtpHcb4BP0] Among the most common objections to the credibility and historical reliability of the Gospels — the first four books of the New Testament, authored, respectively, by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John — is how could such men write in Greek if they were illiterate? That objection is frequently accompanied by the claim that…
Can Christians Be Faithful AND Work With Integrity On ‘The Hill?’
Christians everywhere face the question of whether their faith has anything to do with their jobs, but it’s an especially acute issue for those on a congressional payroll. Here’s why: The law in America is made through the competitive political process, but culture is upstream from politics and faith in turn is upstream from culture….
Should A Congressional Aide View ‘Forensic Faith’ As An Oxymoron?
People on Capitol Hill often speak of the importance of doing a “forensic audit” of a government program, a corporate expenditure or a political campaign, typically in conjunction with a court case or a congressional investigation. The purpose of a forensic audit is to uncover facts that would otherwise likely go undiscovered, which could in…
New Evidence Shows Luke Didn’t Just Invent The Census In The Christmas Story
Christmas is less than a month away and that means there is a fair amount of discussion in the media and popular culture about the birth of Jesus Christ in a manger in Bethlehem. Critics have long delighted to point out that the census that plays a key role in Luke’s Gospel account of His…
Here’s Why Even Critical Scholars Now Say The Gospels Are Reliable
One of the effects of working on Capitol Hill for any length of time is how it tends to capture your focus within the narrow confines of Washington politics and policy. There’s a whole world out there in the “real world” beyond the Potomac River, one small but immensely significant part of which is the…
Maybe Those Gospel Contradictions Are Intentional
Mention “New Testament” or “Bible” or “Gospels” in a mixed crowd and be prepared to be told there are so many contradictions in the documents that they can’t be believed. As Prof. Sean McDowell points out, there are indeed what appear contradictions in the Gospels, such as John 3:16 and I John 2:15. “Which is…
Is Jesus’ Resurrection Fact Or Just ‘Fake News?’
You hear it regularly in conversations on Capitol Hill. One guy says X and the other guy instantly dismisses it because “oh, that’s what you expect Fox/CNN/MSNBC to say. That’s just fake news.” And that raises an interesting question, and not just for men and women working in the House and Senate or one of…
Wasn’t The Resurrection Really Just A Conspiracy?
“Conspiracy” is a word one hears regularly on Capitol Hill and it’s almost always in the context of somebody doing something they don’t want somebody else to know about. After all, as Scripture says, darkness hates the light. So there is invariably a sinister association with conspiracies, as well as with other words that can…