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.
MYTH-BUSTERS: Are Miracles Really Possible?
Do miracles actually happen? Has modern science rendered impossible the intellectual proposition that there actually are miracles, that is, events that cannot happen, according to the Laws of Nature? The greatest “miracle” is the Resurrection of Jesus Christ three days after His death on the Cross. He was dead for a couple of days and…
TESTIMONIES: Yoshua Was Dead, But Then He Wasn’t!
Go without oxygen for eight minutes and your brain dies. That’s just a physical fact. Brains need oxygen, which means your heart must pump blood, which carries oxygen converted into a usable form for your brain. So how do you explain Yoshua Hankins? This young man collapsed at a school sports event and was unconscious…
SUNDAY SONGS: ‘Somebody Prayed’ by Crowder
Lyrics: Every night there by your bedYou fold your hands and bow your headThrowing out another prayer in faithWhen you’re wondering if He’s hearing youLook at me, I’m living proofI’m only right where I am todayBecause somebody prayed So I hit my knees ’cause I’ve seen all heaven move(Don’t matter if you hit rock bottom)(My…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Can Humans Be Replaced by AI?
When entrepreneur and freedom of speech champion Elon Musk talks, people listen, so when he declared recently that the time is coming when Artificial Intelligence (AI) would far outpace human intelligence, his claim got noticed. Musk is far from alone in seeing into a future filled with AI domination of the daily reality that we…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: IZZY MOSER is the new Press Assistant in the office of Rep. Jim Costa (D-Calif.). This is Izzy’s first position on a congressional staff. She is a 2023 BBA graduate in Marketing from California State University, Fresno. Another newcomer to the Hill is MADDI HARDI, who is the new Communications Director for…
MYTH-BUSTERS: Here’s Three Big Reasons Christianity Enabled The Scientific Revolution
Take an introductory astronomy or physics class on a typical college or university campus these days and at some point there will be a great deal of attention paid to the Three Laws of Planetary Motion discovered by Johannes Kepler, one of the chief movers of the Scientific Revolution. What will almost certainly get little…
TESTIMONIES: Former Newsboys Lead Singer John James
There was a time not that long ago when the Newsboys were among the most famous Christian music bands in the world, with a string of six best-selling albums that brought members of the group great material wealth, status, and celebrity. John James, the lead singer for the Newsboys and one of the group’s co-founders,…
TESTIMONIES: Yes, It’s True, Alice Cooper is a Follower of Jesus
Technically, HillFaith is on vacation through the Labor Day weekend, but when I watched Pastor Greg Laurie’s interview with Alice Cooper — yes, that Alice Cooper of hard rock/heavy metal fame — I knew this one had to get posted today. Cooper epitomized the hard-core essence of hard-rock/heavy metal music in the late 1960s and…
What About All The World’s Other Religions?
J. Warner Wallace, the former Los Angeles Police Detective and long-time expert solver of long-cold murder cases on NBC’s “Dateline,” takes on the question of whether he investigated the world’s other religions before deciding to become a Christian. Great question, right! Wallace applied the detective skills he acquired as a detective to the evidence for…