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.
SCIENCE AND FAITH: Of Fingerprints And Galaxies
What is the connection between fingerprint and the billions of galaxies in the universe? Check out the following “Two-Minute Wonders” video (it’s actually 3:48, but who’s counting when you’re this fascinated!) from the John 10:10 Project:
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Why Would God Punish Jesus For My Sins?
One of the great puzzles about Christianity for many who are not followers of the Lord Jesus Christ is why did God put the punishment for their sins on Him? It just seems cruel, or worse, sadistic. But as J. Warner Wallace of Cold-Case Christianity explains in the following “What Would You Say” video from…
EXPLAIN THIS: What About Paul the Apostle?
Consider Paul the Apostle. In a work in which numerous characters stand out — Moses, Joshua, David, Solomon, Samson, Gideon, among many others — his name, exceeded only by that of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, rises above all the others. Two millennia after his four missionary journeys had spread Christianity far and wide in…
WHY I BELIEVE: Two Unshakeable Reasons I Know Jesus Is Lord
There are mountains of evidence — historical, scientific, medical, archeological, literary, logical, philosophical and more — that point to Jesus Christ as God, Creator and Sustainer of the universe. As the Gospel of John puts it in the first five verses of its opening chapter: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was…
Why Is Jesus The Only Way To Heaven? GOOD QUESTION
It has been often said that you can mention the name of Buddha, or Allah, or one of the millions of Hindu deities, and nobody will get upset. But mention the name of Jesus Christ, and the reaction can often be one of dismissal, hostility or even anger. Why is that? Likely it’s because Jesus…
LONG STORY SHORT (EPISODE 2): Did Bears Really Evolve Into Whales?
Charles Darwin caught a lot of flak for his statement in an early edition of “The Origin of the Species” concerning the likelihood of whales in the ocean representing an evolutionary process that began with bears on the land becoming more aquatic. “I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by…
CONSIDER THIS: If You Aren’t Sure About This Intelligent Design Stuff
Odds are overwhelming that unless you’ve read one of the many fine books explaining Intelligent Design (ID) published by the Discovery Institute, or viewed a YouTube video of somebody like biologist Michael Denton, author of the “The Miracle of Man,” or Professor Stephen Meyer, author of the “Return of the God Hypothesis,” you almost certainly…
New York, California, West Virginia at Bottom of First-Ever State Religious Freedom Index Ranking
New York, California and West Virginia are the least protective of religious freedom according to the first-ever index ranking of the 50 states based on 11 measures of their legal protections. Created by the The Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy (CRCD), an initiative of the Plano, Texas-based First Liberty Institute, the Religious Liberty in…
Finding Real Power on Capitol Hill (Hint: It’s Not Where You Think)
I had intended this article to be posted a couple of weeks ago, but with the political turmoil we’ve experienced as a result of the Mar-a-Lago raid, I wondered if it wasn’t addressing the realities of the moment we live in on the Hill these days. It seemed trite and passé to suggest that love…