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.
A Tale of Two Old Karmann Ghias
Unless you are a “car guy” like me, most folks reading this post on HillFaith likely will not have a clue about what a Karmann Ghia might be. The truth is that the Karmann Ghia was a Volkswagen Bug chassis with a body designed by an Italian designer, Carrozerria Ghia. The Karmann Ghia was sold…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Moving Up On The Hill This Week (Might Be Someone You Know)
LAUREN HOLLY is who you need to see about scheduling concerns with Sen. John Boozman (R-AR). Lauren previously served the Arkansas senator as Deputy Scheduler/Assistant to the Chief of Staff. She is a 2020 graduate of the University of Arkansas with a BA in Psychology and Political Science. TIANNA TORREJON is the new Staff Assistant…
EXPLAIN THIS: Why The ‘Telephone Game’ Doesn’t Apply to Jesus’ Parables
You remember the telephone game from when you were a kid, don’t you? One person whispers a message in the ear of the person sitting beside them, and then they turn to the person on their other side and repeat the message. And so on and so and so on. Off at the end, after six…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Why Would God Punish Jesus for My Sins?
It’s a question that typically is the preface to a series of claims about God’s injustice, the unfairness of the world, and cosmic child abuse. And there is a surface appearance of reasonableness to the claims because what happened to Jesus was, from a human perspective, horribly unfair and unjust. But to understand fully just…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week (Might Be Somebody You Know!)
Courtesy of Legistorm: JORDAN WOOD moves up to the Legislative Director slot for Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX), after serving as Senior Legislative Assistant. Jordan is a 2015 BA graduate of the University of Missouri in Political Science, Government and Psychology. There is a new Staff Director for the Democratic majority on the House Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Don’t All Religions Lead to God?
You’ve heard it many times before, that “all roads lead to Heaven,” or some variation thereof for the belief that it doesn’t matter which religion you follow because all of the deities involved inspire people to lead good lives and therefore are paths to Heaven. This idea is also among the most frequently heard objections…
THINK ABOUT THIS: How Could God Create Something Out of Nothing?
Philosopher Kenneth Samples of Reasons To Believe shares an interesting social media exchange he recently had with a correspondent who insisted that God had to create the universe out of something and since He was the only something around, He must have done it out of Himself. Here’s how Samples’ correspondent put the issue to…
If I Ask You A Serious Question, Will You Give Me A Brutally Honest Answer?
Dr. Frank Turek of cross-examined.org and “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist” fame contends that the Elephant in the Room underlying debates between atheists/agnostics and Christians is the fact that if God does indeed exist, then there is such a thing as binding morality. Problem is, thanks to original sin, according to…
The Fish Story of Jonah Like You’ve Never Heard it Before
You probably know the story of Jonah, the Old Testament prophet who was swallowed by a whale (a “great fish” actually), then three days later was spit up on shore. After he dried out, Jonah then did what God had told him to do in the first place, which was preach repentance to the people…