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.
SATURDAY SPECIAL: Skillet’s Cooper On America Changing The Definitions Of Good And Evil
John Cooper of the Christian rock band Skillet watched the Grammy performance of female artists Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion graphically simulating sex on stage and saw something profoundly relevant and important to every person in America, not just those working on Capitol Hill. “You haven’t seen it, you don’t really need to it,…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said: “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes…
Does Science Disprove The Existence Of The Soul?
Toss this idea about science and the soul around your synapses for a spell: If we human beings are nothing more than material blobs that happen to have evolved over billions and billions of years from thoughtless single cells in the primordial mire to the sentient characters of today, how can there be a non-material…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up On The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Emily Taylor moves into the Communications Director slot for Rep. Peter Meijer (R-MI). Previously, Emily was Communications Director for Republicans on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. Emily received her BA in Communications and Political Science from Charleston College in 2014. Max Green heads over to the Senate Appropriations Committee as…
Four Ways To Think About The ‘God Doesn’t Exist Because He’s Hidden’ Argument
If God exists, how come we never “see” Him? That’s a claim usually heard from self-avowed atheists, but it can also be the plaintive cry from the heart of the most convinced believer. “God, where are you?” is a question I have asked, too. Philosopher Kenneth R. Samples of Reasons to Believe takes up this…
No, ‘Ardi’ Isn’t The Missing Link, Either
World Magazine’s John Dawson reports on the research of a Texas A&M University paleontologist who, upon examining the bones of the most recent candidate for evolutionary theorists’ desperately sought missing link, concluded that it doesn’t fit: “Scientists are rethinking a famous fossil often used to illustrate the Darwinian story that humans descended from apes. According to…
Jesus’ Resurrection Through The Eyes Of A Roman Soldier
History seen through the eyes of its players has always fascinated me because there is a genuine sense in which we all see and participate in the events of the day in our own unique manner. “How would I have reacted had I been there?” So imagine that you are Clavius, Pilate’s most trusted Legion…
Now It’s Covid Cancel Christians Culture (CCCC) As New Orleans Mayor Nixes Lauren Daigle
An award-winning Christian and cross-over recording artist performed without a mask at a worship protest earlier this year in the French Quarter, so New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell wants to ban Lauren Daigle from the Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve show. Daigle, who is from Lafayette, Louisiana, performed mask-less during Sean Feucht’s “Let Us…
WHAT DO YOU THINK: Are There Contradictions In The Gospels?
Reading the accounts in the four Gospels of the Easter Sunday discovery that the tomb of Jesus was empty prompts questions about the reliability of the New Testament, thanks to what appear to be variations or even outright contradictions in the details. Matthew says, for example, that “after the Sabbath, at dawn on the first…