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.
This Is Not How Christianity Started (Part 3) There is No Credible Evidence Paul had PTSD
Besides the resurrection itself, one of the most challenging aspects of Christianity for critics is explaining the conversion of the Apostle Paul, who claimed to have encountered the risen Jesus on the road to Damascus. But what if Paul suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Contrary to Paulogia, there is no credible evidence Paul had…
How Christianity Probably Didn’t Begin (Part 2): Peter Only Hallucinated the Resurrection of Jesus?
Peter only hallucinated the resurrection of Jesus. Yes, that Peter, the one who denied knowing Jesus three times before the cock crowed — was so distraught by the death of his Master and so exhausted by the horrors he had witnessed as a result that the former Galilean fisherman suffered a grief-driven hallucination. That hallucination…
How Christianity Probably Didn’t Begin (First of Three Parts)Was Jesus Resurrected From the Grave?
Three days after His death on the cross and burial in a borrowed grave, Jesus’s tomb was found to be empty, so the question is: Was Jesus resurrected from the grave? His disciples then claimed He had been resurrected from the dead and they further claimed to have seen and talked with Him. Everything about…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Which is Better for Kids? Unhappily Married or ‘Happily Divorced?’
Do kids just “get over” divorce without any lingering or permanent negative effects? That’s been the conventional wisdom since the 1970s saw the “No Fault” approach to ending marriages become dominant in the judicial system. But is it true? The answer is no, divorce leaves scars on kids’ minds, bodies and hearts that often afflict…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ Up on The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Chris Brown is the new Defense Fellow in the office of Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO). Chris was previously the U.S. Space Force Congressional Fellow working for Lamborn. Chris has an MA from American Military University and a BS from Central Florida University. Got an operations questions for the office of Rep. Brian…
HILLFAITH STUDIES: The Seven Great ‘I Am’ Claims of Jesus
A typical conversation among two congressional aides meeting for the first time will often begin with three questions: What is your name, who do you work for, and where are you from? Your given name is your most personal identifier, of course, followed closely by where you are from as the indicator of your cultural…
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STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ Up on The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Matthew Cornelius trots over from the Alliance for Digital Innovation where he was Executive Director to serve as Senior Professional Staff Member on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, working for the Chairman, Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI). Matthew’s previous jobs included stints at the Office of Management and Budget, the…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Freedom Means …
What does the word “Freedom” mean? The U.S. Constitution guarantees individual freedom to Americans, but so did the Soviet Constitution for the people of the former USSR. Obviously, there were two different definitions of the word involved. There are also a lot of folks these days for whom “Freedom” essentially means they are able to…
EXPLAIN THIS: Would You Suffer Years of Extreme Pain, Hardship For A Lie?
Paul the Apostle made four major missionary journeys around the ancient Mediterranean world sharing the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, who he claimed to have seen and talked to during that famous encounter on the road to Damascus a year or so after the crucifixion. In the decades thereafter in the course of his…