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.
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HILL STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: BROOKE AGHAKHAN moves into the Communications Advisor position for Rep. Scott Franklin (R-Fla.). Previously, Brooke worked at the Pinkston Group Inc. as a Staff Writer. She received her BA in Political Science and English Literature in 2019 from the University of California at Berkley. There is a new Legislative Assistant in the…
(11/15) CONTRADICTIONS: No, Matthew and Luke Don’t Have Different Genealogies for Joseph
Among the most familiar claims of critics of the Bible’s credibility is the argument that the genealogies for Joseph, the husband of Mary the mother of Jesus Christ, found in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke are contradictory. Matthew describes Jacob as Joseph’s father, while Luke points to Heli. So how can anything the Bible…
FOUNDATIONS: Why Christians Should Support Private Property
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. An old expression says that God made man “a little lower than…
THINK ABOUT THIS: What About That ‘God of the Gaps’ Argument?
Dr. Sean McDowell is an Associate Professor of Christian Apologetics at Biola University, and the author of multiple books, podcasts and videos dealing with every aspect of what it means to be a follower of the Risen Lord Jesus Christ. He is also an intellectually vital and respected defender of the faith against critics from…
LONG STORY SHORT: Can Nature Tell Good Knock-Knock Jokes?
Unless you have been living your entire life in some alternate universe where the first appearance of the sense of humor remains somewhere way, way off in the future, you know what is meant when somebody mentions “Knock-Knock” jokes. Whatever else we may think about any particular Knock-Knock joke, when we hear one, we know…
What Happens After We Die? A Review of ‘After Death’
The following review of “After Death” is from the pen of David Klinghoffer, editor of Evolution News & Science Today. It is reprinted here with permission: I’ve just watched a remarkable, riveting documentary that releases in theaters on October 27 – After Death. It’s too bad the famous line from Hamlet has become a bit of a…
CONSIDER THIS: Is The ‘Stupid Design’ Argument Stupid?
Is the reality of cancer, birth deformities and destructive weather forces evidence that, rather than being intelligently designed, our universe was actually produced by an inept designer who didn’t entirely know what he was doing? Or that there really wasn’t an intelligent force involved in creation? Readers may recognize that argument — inept or broken…
What About The ‘Kustodian Factor’ In Jesus’ Resurrection?
What in the world is the Kustodian Factor in the resurrection of Jesus Christ? Check out the following HillFaith video for a quick explanation. And then ask yourself, is it more reasonable to think the disciples could have stole Jesus’ dead body, hid it and then fooled the world with their claim Jesus was alive?…