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: Prominent Atheists Concede Creation Looks Intelligently Designed
By Kyle Butt, M.Div. The concept of creation by a supernatural Creator has been a powerful and persuasive aspect of truth since the beginning of time. The idea that there is no supernatural Creator, and that everything we see in the Universe—from hummingbirds to humans—has evolved through mindless, chance processes has been advanced in an…
DID YOU KNOW: The End of the Intelligent Design Debate Has Arrived
Brian Miller, reporting for Evolution News & Science Today, claims the debate that has raged for several decades over whether we evolved from primordial muck or are the products of an intelligent designer is just about completed. You may be surprised by who he declares the winner and from which scientific field come the grounds…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ on Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Chad Padgett shifts from being State Director for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to State Director for Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK). Prior to his BLM position, Chad was District Director for Rep. Don Young (R-AK). Chad is a 1993 graduate of Boise State University with a BA in Political Science and…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: How To Have A Civil Debate
These are tough times to have civil debates on controversial issues of public policy that encourage consensus and cooperation, without things getting overly heated as logic and facts go out the window, replaced by snarky passion and rhetorical gotchas that divide. Nowhere is the need for preserving civil discussion and debate more important than on…
Here’s Two (FREE!!!) Books That Can Change How You Think On … Everything
More than 200 people so far have taken advantage of HillFaith’s offer of two free books, either of which could absolutely change the way you view the world, yourself and your daily life, the people around you, and, most importantly, the man named Jesus. One of the books — “More Than A Carpenter” by Josh…
Today is the Birthday of the Man Who Abolished the Slave Trade
By Bill King Today is the birthday of William Wilberforce. Abraham Lincoln once said Wilberforce’s name is one that every schoolboy should know. Yet I suspect it is a name that many of you will not recognize. Wilberforce was a member of the British Parliament for nearly three decades in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s. Over his…
Would Christians Be Justified in Using Fake Vaccine Passports?
His name is Doug Wilson and he is the author of the “Blog and Mablog” web site that is occasionally controversial, always insightful, sometimes outrageous, other times wry, and in this particular case, highly relevant. A philosopher of a reformed/evangelical bent who worked with atheist Christopher Hitchens in a televised series of debates on the…
HILLFAITH STUDIES: Jesus’ Seventh Great ‘I AM’ Claim – ‘The True Vine’
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser … I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.” – John 15:1,5 One of the most familiar maxims about living and…
The Most Frequently Heard Fallacy of the Anti-Christian Skeptic
Here’s betting you’ve never heard of Sir Richard Whately. Even so, Erik Manning of Is Jesus Alive? explains why Whately is a 19th Century logician and churchman who is very much worth knowing about: “Richard Whately (1 February 1787 – 8 October 1863) was a brilliant guy. He was an English academic, rhetorician, logician, philosopher,…