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.
THINK ABOUT THIS: Who Created God?
Whoa! That’s quite a big question up there in the headline to this post. But it captures a question that is often heard when an atheist or agnostic considers whether God exists. It’s also sometimes meant more rhetorically than as a serious inquiry. But to answer the question, there can only be three possible kinds…
EXPLAIN THIS: Where Do Natural Laws Come From?
“Where do natural laws originate” was not likely the first question on your mind this morning as you gazed into the mirror, washed the sleep out of your eyes, and contemplated your breakfast choices. But what would you say if that question was posed to you later in the day by a colleague during the…
THINK ABOUT THIS: The Truth About C.S. Lewis’ Famous ‘Lord, Liar or Lunatic’ Trilemma
Among the most well-known popular arguments in favor of the divinity of Jesus Christ was first proposed by the great C.S. Lewis in his book, “Mere Christianity,” when he offered this syllogistic claim: “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept…
Here’s Why the ‘God of the Gaps’ Critique is a Mis-Characterization of Theism, Intelligent Design
One of the most commonly cited criticisms of those who believe human beings, Earth and indeed the entire universe exhibit evidence of intelligent design is the retort from evolutionists that concluding there must be a designer is “just another example of the ‘god of the gaps’ fallacy.” On the surface, the god of the gaps…
LONG STORY SHORT (Episode 1): Homology, Common Descent or Common Designer?
If one wanted to redefine an inconvenient term in such a manner as to make it a conversational resource rather than an obstacle, giving it a seemingly positive new name is the ticket. Believe it or not, that’s very much like what happened to the word “Homology.” Example: Instead of calling “circular reasoning” circular reasoning,…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Who Got Jesus’ Dead Body?
There are a thousand ways to approach a conversation about Jesus Christ, but in the final analysis, it all comes down to one crucial question — Why was His grave empty on the third day after His crucifixion and burial? The answer of the Gospels is, of course, that, just as He predicted before the…
New Barna Group Survey Finds Christians Are The Most Generous Americans
Americans have long been known as the most generous people on the face of the Earth, but who are the most generous among them? A new nationwide survey by the Barna Group market research firm points to “Practicing Christians.” The Barna Groups survey results are reported in “Landscape of Giving,” the first of what is…
THINK ABOUT THIS: The Life-Giving Miracle of Water
Where would we humans be without water? Well, there is a reason the Bible uses water to symbolize life and salvation — without water, there is no life, simple as that — as at Revelation 21:6. That said, the physical properties of water are amazing and go a long way toward explaining why life is…
THINK ABOUT THIS: The Miracle of the Human Heart
Did you know you were born with a miracle beating within your chest? Biologist and medical doctor Michael Denton describes in the following video the amazing characteristics that make the heart such an astounding organ. Did you know, for example, that with every contraction, your heart pumps 100 billion red blood cells through hundreds of…
DID YOU KNOW? Materialists Have Been Bashing Intelligent Design Since Greece and Rome
Dr. John West, Director of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, explains in the following video that critics of the claim that the universe exhibits evidence of being designed have been attacking Intelligent Design (ID) ideas from the earliest days of the Christian church in the First Century AD and before that. West…