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.
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Does The Bible Really Say That About Sex?
Unless you’ve actually sat down and read it, odds are excellent that you have a hugely mistaken understanding of what the Bible teaches on the controversial topic of sex and sexual relations among men and women. If that is the case, odds are also great that if somebody were to ask you what the Bible…
HILL STAFF NEWS: About Those End-of-the-Year Bonuses
Legistorm’s Keturah Hetrick reports that House Members’ office funds will have on average more than $360,000 in unspent funds at the end of the year’s third quarter. That important data point, of course, raises a very specific question for Members and their Chiefs of Staff: What about some end-of-the-year staff bonuses to mark the conclusion…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: ELISE KREKORIAN is the new Counsel for the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Energy, Climate and Grid Security Subcommittee, working for Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.). Elise previously was a Professional Staff Member on the same panel’s staff. She is a 2015 BS graduate of Clemson University in Political Science and Communication Studies,…
CONTRADICTIONS: Who Was First Responsible For Original Sin Entering Mankind?
Hoo-boy, this is an important alleged contradiction in the Bible because it concerns one of the most basic facts of human existence — why is it pretty much everybody has done or thought about doing or been tempted to do things which in retrospect we regret, feel guilty about, or are outright ashamed? Basically, the…
CONSIDER THIS: Explaining the ‘Explanatory Filter’ of the Design Inference
Dr. William Dembski is a mathematician and philosopher who is also the author of “The Design Inference,” the ground-breaking book making the case 25 years ago for the evidence in nature of intentionality, or design. Earlier this year, Dembski was joined as a co-author of the second edition of the book by Dr. William Ewert,…
TESTIMONIES: From Religious Hypocrisy to Follower of Jesus Christ
If the truth were known, all of us walking around on this Earth have things we’ve done or thought about doing in our past that we would be ashamed for anybody else to know. This includes those among us who do lots of good works and think those good works will be enough when they…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: SOPHIE MACHALEC returns to the staff behind Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) to be Scheduler/Legislative Assistant. Previously, Sophie was an Account Manager with Advocacy Associates LLC and before that she was the South Carolinian’s Scheduler. Sophie expects to complete her MA in National Security Policy Studies at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School…
CONTRADICTIONS: How Can God Know Everything If He Didn’t Know Something?
There are multiple references in both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible that describe God as being all-knowing, or omniscient. He knows everything about everybody all the time and is never less than all-knowing. For example in the Old Testament, Psalm 44:21 tells us that God “knows the secrets of the heart,” and…
FOUNDATIONS: How Should Christians View Legal And Illegal Immigration?
The following article is from the editors of The Stream and was originally published as an installment in a series known as “Foundations,” which examines the most important fundamental issues facing America from a traditional Christian perspective. It is reprinted here on HillFaith by permission. We, as Christians, are to love our neighbor, care for those…