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.
CONSIDER THIS: Without Information, We Don’t Exist, But Where Does Information Come From?
Did you hear the one about the three monkeys who sat down at Harvard with MacBook Air laptops, began banging away on the keys in no particular sequence, and lo and behold!, the end result after a long time was an updated version of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”? No, probably not, since no three monkeys anywhere, any…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Quantum Theory and Theology
If someone were to ask you “what is matter,” what would you say. If you are a normal person, you might well say something like, “well, it’s concrete, it’s reality,”it’s, you know, the stuff that we are.” But if you are a physicist and knowledgeable about Quantum Theory, your response is likely to be something…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: JAMES MISMASH moves up from Military Legislative Assistant to National Security Adviser for Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.). Michael earned his BA in Government and History in 2021 from the University of Texas at Austin where he was also a journalist working for the Texas Orator and the Daily Texan. There is a…
FOUNDATIONS: Why Christians Support Traditional Marriage of One Man/One Woman
The following article is from the editors of The Stream and was originally published as an installment in a series known as “Foundations,” which examines the most important fundamental issues facing America from a traditional Christian perspective. It is reprinted here on HillFaith by permission. Evangelicals and Catholics have a reputation. We’re opposed to homosexuality, and gay…
TESTIMONIES: This New York Times Best-Selling Author Found the Messiah
Joel Rosenberg has sold nearly 5 million copies of the 14 fictional thrillers and five non-fiction current events books he’s written. Their titles leave no doubt about what readers will find in their pages, as with these three examples: “The Last Jihad,” “The Jerusalem Assassin,” and “The Third Target.” “He has been interviewed on hundreds…
SUNDAY SONGS: ‘The God Who Stays’ by Matthew West
I don’t know that this passage of scripture specifically inspired Matthew West to do “The God Who Stays” but it would not surprise me at all to know that it did because that’s the message of John 10, especially verses 14 through 18.
CONSIDER THIS: No, Christians Did Not Create Jesus by Copying Horus
It’s a regularly heard claim among skeptics who insist that Jesus Christ was invented by His disciples, who in desperation after the crucifixion turned to the Egyptian god Horus and used it to create the myth that the Christians’ Son of God was raised from the dead. In fact, as Michael Jones of Inspiring Philosophy…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Was Jesus JUST a Great Moral Teacher?
You’re in a conversation with a colleague and the conversation edges into a discussion of spiritual topics. Maybe you’ve mentioned that you attended church on Sunday, that you read the Bible regularly or that you are volunteering at a soup kitchen managed by a local ministry. In response, your colleague declares that “I think Jesus…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Look Who Is Moving Up The Hill This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: KALEIGH DEGELDERE takes over as Scheduler for Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) after serving a stint as Deputy Scheduler for Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R-Az.). Kaleigh is a 2023 BA graduate of the University of North Dakota in Political Science and Government. TYLER PARMALEE spent six years in the Air Force and now moves…