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: Do You Want a Relationship With God or a Religion of Man?
There are among the world’s religions only two basic paths to eternal salvation. The most prevalent one is some variation on human works, on earning salvation by living a good life, however that is defined. Christianity is fundamentally different from all other religions because it is in fact not a religion at all. Instead of…
TESTIMONIES: Iranian Muslim Chanted ‘Death to Israel,’ Now Speaks Life, Follows Jesus
This may well be the most amazing thing you see today, this week or maybe even this year. Something is happening throughout the Muslim world as the underground Christian movement spreads despite the cruelest, most systematic repression, both official and non-official. This man was an Iranian military commander, driven by hate for Jews and Israel….
CONSIDER THIS: Did Jesus Have ‘Doubts’?
If Jesus is both fully God and fully Man, did He ever have doubts about who He is and the Purpose of His life during His 33 years on the Earth? Believe it or not, that is a question that has received some serious discussion in recent years among some religious scholars. Rob Bowman, the…
LONG STORY SHORT (EPISODE THREE): Is Antibiotic Resistance Good Evidence for Darwinian Evolution?
Too much of a good thing can become a bad thing, right? An important illustration of this maxim is the fact that many antibiotics are wonder drugs when used in the proper dosages, but overuse leads to uselessness. The folks at Discovery Science observe that: “Bacterial evolution and antibiotic resistance is one of the all…
SCIENCE UPRISING: Will Artificial Intelligence Lead to Robots Taking Over Our World?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already a pervasive influence, thanks to advances in robotic manufacturing that offers mixed blessings. Robots can all-but-endlessly manufacture products to perfect specifications, but the same robots take jobs from human beings. There are also worries that the time will come when AI will result in robots that develop the capacity to…
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…