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.
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
NEWS FLASH! Millennials Run Congress
Great post today in Roll Call by reporter Alex Gangitano titled “Politicians Worry About Millennials But They’re Already Running The Hill.” If you work on the Hill, you knew that before today but Gangitano’s post puts some interesting human faces on the reality. Gangitano quotes Chris Carter, 31, who is chief of staff for Rep….
Which Are More Reliable, Aristotle and Plato, or Matthew, Mark, Luke And John?
One of the most frequently mentioned myths about the Gospels (the first four books of the New Testament, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) is the claim they cannot be historically accurate because they were written decades after the events they purport to report. Several of the commenters to yesterday’s post here — “Are…
Are Christians The Biggest Fools Of All Time?
Why yes, if Jesus Christ was not resurrected from the dead on the third day following His crucifixion, as He repeatedly told His disciples beforehand He would be, then every one of the billions of people who have lived who professed their faith in Him has been a schmuck, a fool, conned, etc. This may…
Is Jesus Really The Only Way To Heaven?
And if He is, where does that leave Buddha, Mohammed and Rev. Moon?
Why Work On The Hill … If There’s No God?
If that seems like an apples-and-oranges kind of question posed in the headline, be assured that it’s not. Think about it: Why would anybody put in such long hours, usually for low pay and little or no recognition on the Hill unless they are convinced that doing so will somehow advance them towards something that…
So When Was The Last Time You Checked Your Unstated Assumptions?
You know what I mean; assumptions like if a person is a Harvard graduate, he or she must be smart. Or anybody who becomes a plumber or a carpenter isn’t likely to be reading philosophy at night. Or Texas really is God’s country. OK, maybe not that last one about the Lone Star State, but…