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.
TESTIMONIES: How Could God Use Me, A Hypocrite?
All of us as human beings have a serious mask problem. No, not the COVID-19 mask mandate kind of problem, but the mask that we all present to the world with the image we want everybody to think reflects the real us. What happens when deep down we know in our heart that the mask…
CONSIDER THIS: The Miracle of the Human Body’s Emergency Response System
Have you ever cut yourself? Of course you have, but have you ever timed how long it took for the subsequent bleeding to stop? Probably not, but biochemist Michael Behe has and he uses the experience in this video from Discovery Science to introduce the human body’s amazing Emergency Response System otherwise known as the…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? I’m Spiritual but I Don’t Have a Religion
Human beings are capable of highly intelligent reasoning, to be sure, but we also have an amazing capacity to believe two things that are contradictory as equally true. We also have a tendency sometimes to compare apples to oranges as if they are the same. Such is the case when someone claims something along the…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: LESLIE REAGAN adds a distinctive Texas flavor to the House Democracy Partnership, coming on board as Deputy Director. Previously, Leslie worked as Congressional Liason and Communications Coordinator for the U.S.- China Security Review Commission. Leslie received her MLA last year from Harvard University and her BS in Political Communications in 2014 from…
CONTRADICTIONS: Was the Sermon on the Mount Delivered on a Mountain or a Plain?
Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount (See Matthew 5:1 – 7:29) is among the most famous orations in all of human history. But where was it delivered, on a mountain or on a plain? Critics of the Bible’s claim to be the Word of God sometimes point to a seeming contradiction between Matthew’s account and that…
TESTIMONIES: Track Was Everything For Her, Then She Met Jesus
Julianna was raised in a traditional Catholic family, attended mass regularly and thought being kind to people was what it meant to be a Christian. She was not alone in thinking that, as many young people who grew up in Protestant churches have similarly misguided ideas. But the reality was that Julianna actually knew nothing…
CONSIDER THIS: Why Does Mathematics Work?
If the question posed by the headline above seems odd, it actually reflects the reality that numbers, sets, equations and formulas are non-material but nobody questions whether they exist. Math is analogous to thinking – non-material but you surely know it’s real because you experience it constantly. Here’s where it gets really interesting: Scientists, philosophers…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Must We Choose Between Science and Faith?
Another myth that has grown up in recent decades about science and faith is that, thanks to the proliferating advances in human knowledge gained as a result of increasingly sophisticated science, there is no longer any “need” for faith. There are multiple unstated assumptions involved in such an assertion, most notably that humans created religion…