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: The Two Facts That Change Everything
It’s a complicated world out there and it’s getting more so every day, thanks in great part to steady advances in science and technology and the practical applications thereof in daily life. And as our lives become steadily more complicated, it becomes all the more important that we be able to recognize and prioritize what…
EXPLAIN THIS: New Episode of the ‘Science Uprising,’ on Something From Nothing?
You are walking along a corridor of offices in the Dirksen Senate Office Building and suddenly, with no warning, a wall appears out of nowhere, blocking your forward progress and causing you to drop the files you were carrying. Sounds implausible, right? Everybody knows walls don’t just suddenly appear where nothing stood an instant before. Put…
Think You Can Solve Any of the ‘Chicken and Egg’ Problems on the Origin of Life?
Capitol Hill is thick with people who want to be famous for something in politics and government, but what if there is a way to put your name on the lips of every human being on the face of the Earth, no matter what interests them? Sound impossible? Well, if you can solve any of…
Will Our Pets Be In Heaven Waiting For Us? A Meditation on Creation
If you, like me, love dogs and cats, you’ve probably wondered what happens to them when they die. This question was again in my mind yesterday as our beloved black Lab, Twister, died of a ruptured spleen. We rescued Twister when he was five after his master, who used him as a gun dog and…
Surprise! Bible Spares No One in Old or New Testaments From Deserved Criticism
When marketers prepare advertising for new products, they only talk about the claimed benefits, while ignoring any possible criticisms. Same with political campaigns that portray their candidates in only the most glowing of terms, and historical revisionists seeking to coverup their particular heroes’ flaws. But that’s not the approach of the Bible’s authors in either…
Praying For Life At The Supreme Court October 2
We are asking anyone and everyone who cares about the sanctity of human life to join us for a prayer gathering in front of the United States Supreme Court on October 2, 2021 at 2pm EDT. The event is to usher in the 2021-2022 SCOTUS term that could prove to be a monumental year for…
FOR HILL AIDES ONLY: Make Monday Lunch the Best Hour of Your Week
Which requires more faith, believing that Jesus Christ is God Incarnate and the only way to spend eternity in Heaven, or that the world, including all of us human beings, somehow popped into existence, spontaneously becoming something from nothing? If that question surprises you — after, all isn’t being an atheist or an agnostic the…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week (Might Be Somebody You Know)
Courtesy of Legistorm: Daniel Gottfried moves from Regional Operations Coordinator for the Biden presidential campaign to Legislative and Policy Analyst for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, working for the Chairman, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ). Daniel is a 2016 graduate of Tufts University with a BA in International Relations, Russian and Eastern European studies. Maggie Frankel…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Jesus Isn’t God?
What do you do with a guy who tells you he is God, the eternal creator of you and everything else in the universe, and that if you want to spend eternity in Heaven, you must accept him as your personal savior and model your conduct after his? That’s not how Jesus operated, of course,…
Here is What The Complexity of DNA Coding Tells Us About Individual Rights
Among the most incredible advances in all of human history is the cracking of the DNA code because, among so much else, it makes clear how amazingly complex is the structure within just a single cell of the human body. Multiply that complexity by the trillions of cells required to make up one human being….