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.
FOUNDATIONS: Why Christians Must Support Freedom of Speech
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. “Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.”…
CONSIDER THIS: Is John 3:16 the Most Distorted, Misunderstood Verse in the Bible?
John 3:16 may well be the most widely recognized verse of Scripture in modern America. For many people, it’s likely the only verse of Scripture they have ever heard. And, as the late, great Rev. R. C. Sproul explains in the following 8:00 video recording, John 3:16 is also very possibly the most distorted verse…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: Got a scheduling question involving Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.)? Then you need to get with her new Scheduler, DENISE DEMAPILLIS. Denise is taking the big step into her first full-time congressional aide position, having previously been an Intern for another Illinois Democrat, Rep. Brad Schneider. Denise is a 2023 graduate of George…
Did You Hear About The Dramatic Fall Of The New Atheism?
Signs are abounding that something of a spiritual rebirth is gathering strength in the West, especially the U.S. and the U.K., and, according to Justin Brierley, and one of the prompts of this renewal, ironically, is the decline of the once-prominent New Atheism movement. “While it started in about 2005, I noticed that the conversation…
DID YOU KNOW: The Number One Reason Many People Think The Bible Is Confusing
Nobody alive today was around the last time the Bible was not the best-selling book in America. Sales of Bibles in all of its multiple translations total around $500 million in the U.S. year-in and year-out. But people often call the Bible “confusing” or “hard to understand.” Why is it the book that outsells every…
CONSIDER THIS: No, C.S. Lewis Did Not Miss A Fourth Option in His Trilemma
If you check out HillFaith posts with any frequency, you have likely read a reference or two to the justly famous “Trilemma” propounded by the great Christian apologist C.S. Lewis: That is that, given His claims about Himself, Jesus must either have been a Liar, a Lunatic or the Lord of the universe. The Trilemma…
It Was 23 Years Ago Today That I Died
It was August 4, 2000, as I lay on an operating table having emergency double bypass heart surgery. At age 50, nearly 23 years of Marlboros and Coors had caught up with me because the artery cardiologists call “the widowmaker” was 90 percent blocked when they opened my chest. “You are the 50-year-old guy in…
CONSIDER THIS: Did Jesus Really Think He Was God?
There are among skeptical scholars some who argue that Jesus Christ never existed as a real person, while others who concede that He did indeed live on this Earth 2,000 years ago, but they contend He never actually thought of or described Himself as God. There is abundant evidence in ancient secular writings, as well…