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.
SPIRITUAL MEAT: Alistair Begg – ‘His Sheep Hear His Voice’
Alistair Begg was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1952 but came to the United States in 1983 to pastor Parkside Church near Cleveland, Ohio. He is the voice behind the Truth For Life Christian radio preaching and teaching ministry, which broadcasts his sermons daily to stations across North America through over 1,800 radio outlets. His…
DATA SAYS: Survey Shows Public’s View of Faith’s Importance to Society Rebounded in 2023
Americans appear to be reinvigorating their view that religious faith is a key element in finding practical and workable solutions to the many problems facing this nation, according to the latest edition of the Religious Freedom Index: American Perspectives on the First Amendment published annually by the Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty. “The 2023 Index marked the highest…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Does Abortion Pill Reversal Work and Is It Safe?
There are at least 4,000 human beings walking on the face of the Earth today because their mothers changed their mind about aborting them chemically and instead successfully used the Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) treatment to save their unborn child. Haven’t heard of the APR? That’s not surprising, considering it is counter to the dominant…
President Ronald Reagan’s Classic Illustration of Intelligent Design
From Evolution News & Science Today: We are approaching President Ronald Reagan’s 113th birthday, falling next week on February 6. Two days before his birthday in 1988, Reagan delivered remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC. (Editor’s Note: The 2024 National Prayer Breakfast convened earlier this morning in the nation’s capital.). He told attendees that…
RED PEN LOGIC: Should ‘Religious People’ Impose Their Morality Through the Law?
Did you hear about the tweet posted recently by the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science? According to Dr. Tim Barnett, the “Mr. B” behind Stand to Reason’s Red Pen Logic videos, religious people were invited to keep their beliefs to themselves whenever they feel the urge to comment on issues in the public…
MYTHS & MISCHIEF: If You Think Christianity is Anti-Human Rights …
Look who said this: “Another Christian concept — no less crazy — has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the ‘equality of souls before God.’ This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.” Friedrich Nietzsche
HILL STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: ALEXIS LITTRELL is moving into the Operations Director slot for Rep. Mike Ezell (R-Mo.). Previously, Alexis performed the same duties for Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa). Alexis is a 2021 graduate of Mississippi College with a BS in Political Science. Ezell Staff Line: Legistorm Turnover Index o.13 (House Average is o.33). Office Median…
CONSIDER THIS: A Fish Story That Points to God
If you are a fisherman, odds are you are at least passingly familiar with the Pacific Salmon and the incredible journey it makes from the vast expanse of the ocean to the same river or stream in which it was born. But did you know these fish smell the water? The following 8:46 second video…
TESTIMONIES: Atheist Discovers Some Unexpected Truths About Christianity and the Truth in Christ
Jon Noyes had just moved from Washington, D.C. to Southern California in connection with his work when he met Rihanna. Not long after, they began dating, then their relationship deepened and they married. But there was one way in which they were total opposites – she was a Christian, while Jon was a convinced atheist….
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? No, The Bible Does Not Disprove Space Aliens
Are we humans the only life in the entire universe? It’s a question that’s intrigued, puzzled and mystified many for eons. It seems at first glance that the universe being so immense argues in favor of the likelihood that we are not alone, that there are living beings on other planets. Contemporary culture is, of…