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.
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,…
DID YOU KNOW? Here’s Why No Superhero Even Remotely Compares With Jesus
Stand to Reason’s (STR) Alan Schlemon explains why you may be Batman or the Incredible Hulk, or you may be Superman, or even Spiderman, but no matter how great a superhero you see yourself, Jesus is infinitely greater, smarter, stronger, more compassionate, etc. etc. etc. This video is part of STR’s University training program for…
Is Christianity Still Relevant?
It’s increasingly easy in contemporary American public policy, media and culture for Christians to feel like they have become a minority inflluence and, it often seems to a steadily greater degree, a despised minority to boot. But, as J. Warner Wallace of Cold-Case Christianity explains during a recent appearance on “The Ride Home With John…
International Survey Finds Half of Teens Say Jesus Offers Hope, Fourth Claim Personal Relationship With Him
A survey of nearly 25,000 teenagers 13-17 in 26 countries and speaking 17 different languages turned up some surprising responses concerning their opinions about Jesus Christ and their views about His relevance, or lack thereof. Forty-six percent of those interviewed by the Barna Group said Jesus “offers hope” to the world and more. “Most teenagers…
CONSIDER THIS: ‘I Regret It Every Day’ – New Survey Reveals Depth of Post-Abortion Trauma
By Ben Johnson The entertainment and legacy media present abortion as empowering, but that’s not the feeling that impelled one mother to agree to a medication abortion. “I was scared to death,” she told researchers. Even five later, the woman — who still describes herself as “pro-choice” — says she regrets her chemical abortion. “Now…