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.
Here’s Some Sneaky Good Reasons to Trust the Gospels’ Credibility
So you are listening to a friend telling you about their excellent Labor Day weekend adventures and he persists in telling you seemingly irrelevant details that don’t really add to the excitement or make you want to hear even more. But think about this: If, instead of a friend telling you about a vacation well…
This May Be The Most Beautiful Rendition of the National Anthem You Will Ever Hear
Grammy winning singer/songwriter Victory Boyd was slated to perform the National Anthem tonight at the NFL’s 2021 season-opening game between in Tampa Bay between the Super Bowl champion Buccaneers and the Dallas Cowboys. But Boyd, like millions of her fellow Americans, declines to get the Covid vaccination shot due to religious, medical and other reasons….
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week (Might Be Someone You Know!)
Courtesy of Legistorm: Madeline Malone moves up from Staff Assistant/Press Assistant to Scheduler for Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY). Madeline is a 2020 graduate of Liberty University in Worship Studies. She’s also quite a talented portrait artist, as attested to the left. Making the move from the House side to the Senate side is Amy Hasenberg,…
EXPLAIN THIS: Neural Complexity of a Single Brain Cell Boosts Intelligent Design?
When Charles Darwin wrote “Origin of the Species,” the scientific community viewed single cells as exceedingly simple entities. Given the limited microscopic technology available in his day, it’s not surprising that such a view prevailed. A recent article in Quanta Magazine, however, suggests just how mistaken a view that was. “How Computationally Complex is a…
THINK ABOUT THIS: What of Christianity and the Spider Man Fallacy?
Archeologists discovered the Pool of Silom in the City of David area of Jerusalem in 2004. But does that discovery in and of itself prove that Jesus spread mud on a blind man’s eyes and told him to go wash in the Pool of Silom, whereupon his sight was restored, as told at John 9:1-11?…
Would the Real Bart Erhman Please Stand Up?
Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, there was an immensely popular evening quiz show on television called “To Tell the Truth” There was a panel of well-known folks who asked questions of three guests, each posing as a particular individual who did something noteworthy. When nobody on the panel correctly guessed which…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Molly Barlow continues a steady move upward, taking over as a Legislative Analyst/Policy Analyst for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on the majority staff. Molly previously was an Intern for the panel and before that worked as a Teaching Assistant for Georgetown University Law Professor Anthony Arend. Molly is a 2020 graduate…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: What Does ‘Tolerance’ Mean?
There likely is no more frequently repeated criticism of Christians and other defenders of traditional morals and standards of conduct in recent years than that they are “intolerant” or “judgmental” or “imposing your morals on everybody else.” But at the root of such criticisms is often a different definition of what it means to be…