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.
Jesus’ First Question: ‘What Are You Seeking?’
Open the Gospel of John and you find in the first chapter at verse 38 that the first question Jesus asked anybody was His query to two of the disciples of John the Baptist, asking them “What are you seeking?” The two men had left a conversation they were having with John the Baptist and…
Bet You Didn’t Know There’s 18 Trillion Feet of You!
If 18 trillion feet sounds like a lot, it is, it is almost incomprehensible. But as the following video from the John 10:10 Project demonstrates, the figure is a measure of the total DNA strands in the three trillion cells that make up one human body. Stretched end-to-end, the DNA strands for one human being…
SECRETS OF THE CELL (EPISODE 7): The Miracle of the Human Blood Clotting System
If you are like me, you can’t pick up a wrench and work on something mechanical such as a car or a lawn mower without “busting” at least one knuckle. Quite often, there is some bleeding, but it’s minor and it stops after just a few minutes. No big deal, we shrug it off and…
HILLFAITH STUDIES: What ‘Doubting Thomas’ Can Teach Us Today
Thomas, the disciple of Jesus Christ known as “Doubting Thomas,” may not seem like somebody with anything important to tell us today, two millennia after the scene described in John 20:24-29. But in fact there is a crucial detail described in just three words that tells us how the Lord Jesus used Thomas to illustrate…
Who Exactly Was At The Tomb Of Jesus On The First Easter Sunday Morning?
Skeptics of Jesus’ Resurrection often point to the variations in the four Gospels regarding who were the first of His followers to arrive at the tomb to discover that it was empty on the first Easter morning. Six different women are mentioned in the four Gospels as being among the first to arrive at the…
Do You Know About America’s ‘Human Zoos” History?
Imagine a World’s Fair in America at which one of the most well-publicized attractions are displays of Native Americans, Africans and Pacific Islanders who were purported to represent the Darwinian “missing link” between apes and men. As the following award-winning Discovery Institute documentary demonstrates, this unbelievable and horrendous display was featured at the 1904 St….
STAFF NEWS: This May Be The Best Hill Departure Email Ever
People come and go on congressional staffs regularly, so it’s not unusual for anybody who has frequent contact with Hill aides to send an email and receive a response that the individual no longer works for senator or representative so-and-so or this-or-that committee or caucus. Such emails are pretty standard, boring, formulaic compositions, something along…
Once I Was Blind But Now I See! (UPDATED)
UPDATE: A number of readers have commented that the second video in this post of “Amazing Grace” is not sung by Joni Mitchell but is in fact by Judy Collins. As you can see from the accompanying screenshot, the version I posted here is labelled as being sung by Joni Mitchell. I have to admit,…