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.
Can We Think About Jesus Like A Detective? Or A Hill Investigator?
Whether you are a famous cold-case detective like J. Warner Wallace solving 30-year-old murders or a veteran investigator for a congressional committee probing government contract fraud, much of what you do and how you do it is the same. Take, for example, assessing the credibility of witnesses. Crime detectives and Hill investigators have to do…
Does The Bible Demean Women (On The Hill Or Anywhere Else)?
It’s a truism in many secular precincts that Christianity has kept women in a subordinate position to men, but is that a reflection on the Bible that defines the faith or on the Christians who misused or misunderstood it? With at least 100 newly elected women heading to mount the Capitol Hill steps above as…
Why Does This Historian Say He Got Christianity Wrong?
Imagine for a moment that Jesus never entered history. There would be no Sermon on the Mount. No Crucifixion. No Resurrection. No New Testament. No Paul. Rome is the foundation of everything that comes after its fall. And Rome, indeed virtually the entire ancient world, was based politically and economically on slavery, the rights and…
Do Moral Intuitions Point To God, Evolutionary Experience or Chance?
Ask 100 randomly selected congressional aides whether they think it’s immoral to torture children and I guarantee you all 100 — like virtually any other similarly sized and chosen group — will react in horror and say something like “of course not, only a monster would do that.” Such responses are evidence of the moral…
Today’s Question For Hundreds Of Hill Staffers — What Now?
Tuesday’s 2018 midterm election is followed by a grim morning for hundreds of congressional aides. They work on the personal staffs of losing Democrat and Republican senators and representatives and, on the House side, on the outgoing Republican majority’s committee staffs. Come the first week of January when the new Congress is seated, with Republicans…
Four Big Bangs Equal Four Huge Problems For Materialists/Atheists
Have you ever wondered why is there something rather than nothing? Yes, it’s an esoteric question and not one any normal person is ever likely to think about without prompting. So consider yourself prompted because it is an important question, one of the most important of all questions in fact. How important? Well, it’s more…
What About Christians And Identity Politics?
rawpixel Call it “identity politics” or “multiculturalism” or whatever else you like, but America’s public discourse today is often all but dominated by analyses based on speakers’ respective racial, ethnic and cultural identities. Democrats are deep into identity politics, while Republicans often find it repellant. There are Christians among both, but does the God of…
This Mom Is A Great Argument for God
So you’re walking down a corridor of the Dirksen Senate Office Building during a break in a committee hearing and there on the floor is the word “MOM” spelled out in Cap’n Crunch. Being a dutiful son or daughter, you love your mom, of course, so you stop to ponder this odd sight, speculating for…
Are You Smarter Than This Kid?
William is 11-years old but he loses me at about his third sentence on why Stephen Hawking was wrong to conclude there is no god. I know there are a bunch of folks reading this blog who are on both sides of that issue, so give a listen and tell us what you think in…
If Jesus Wasn’t Resurrected … Who Got His Dead Body?
Here are three rock-solid bottom-line facts you can trust to be true about Jesus