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: Three Huge Challenges to Scientific Atheism
Famed atheist advocate Richard Dawkins argues that the universe is exactly what should be expected if it is the product of the “blind, pitiless indifference” of purely materialistic forces operating without purpose or plan. If that vision of the universe and the existence of human beings is accurate, then nobody has anything to look forward…
SUNDAY SONGS: ‘Children, Go Where I Send Thee,’ by Little Big Town
HT to Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit for introducing this delightful music to me.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
HillFaith is taking it easy and hoping Jesus’ birth brings you and yours bundles of Christmas joy
O Holy Night
*The Birth of Jesus Christ In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because…
EXPLAIN THIS: Aliens, Multiverses or a Fine-Tuner?
Philosophers have called it the ultimate question – Why is there something rather than nothing? Which then leads to this question: If something exists, has it always existed or did it have a beginning? And that question logically requires this one: If it always existed, it’s impossible to verify that it always will exist, but…
EXPLAIN THIS: Christian Civilization Gave Rise to Modern Science
It’s been a truism on college campuses and in the Mainstream Media for decades that science and faith are in total conflict, having no connections whatsoever because the former is about the observable and rational, while the latter is about the unseen and unverifiable. The problem with that particular piece of conventional wisdom is that…
Six Reasons Why Jesus Still Matters in a Secular Age
Lots of surveys in recent months indicate growth in the number of “None” Americans, those who claim to have no religious faith. And government at many levels and on multiple fronts increasingly displays a hostility to religious faith and expression. But even as the Western world becomes more secularized, Jesus is impossible to avoid because,…
How the Roman Empire Paved the Way for the Birth of Jesus
One of the things the Romans did quite well with their conquered lands was to build the best network of roads ever seen in the ancient world to connect them, thus increasing commerce, the sharing of languages and education, and encouraging the spread of new ideas. Something else that Rome’s roads did was pave the…
Yes, There is a Bunch of Evidence for the Virgin Birth of Jesus
It’s the Christmas season, so the popular media critics of all things Christianity are out in force with their annual debunking of the Virgin Birth of Jesus, as described in the Gospel according to Matthew. And to be sure, there are folks for whom acceptance of the Virgin Birth of Jesus is just as, if…
No, Zenorobots Are NOT a New Form of Self-Replication
It happens with a fair amount of regularity — researchers somewhere will make sensational claims about having achieved this or that amazing feat, but we find on investigation that it was all mostly, or totally, hype. Thus, it is with the recent claim by researchers at Harvard, University of Vermont and Tufts to have created…