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.
CONTRADICTIONS: Was the Sermon on the Mount Delivered on a Mountain or a Plain?
Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount (See Matthew 5:1 – 7:29) is among the most famous orations in all of human history. But where was it delivered, on a mountain or on a plain? Critics of the Bible’s claim to be the Word of God sometimes point to a seeming contradiction between Matthew’s account and that…
TESTIMONIES: Track Was Everything For Her, Then She Met Jesus
Julianna was raised in a traditional Catholic family, attended mass regularly and thought being kind to people was what it meant to be a Christian. She was not alone in thinking that, as many young people who grew up in Protestant churches have similarly misguided ideas. But the reality was that Julianna actually knew nothing…
CONSIDER THIS: Why Does Mathematics Work?
If the question posed by the headline above seems odd, it actually reflects the reality that numbers, sets, equations and formulas are non-material but nobody questions whether they exist. Math is analogous to thinking – non-material but you surely know it’s real because you experience it constantly. Here’s where it gets really interesting: Scientists, philosophers…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Must We Choose Between Science and Faith?
Another myth that has grown up in recent decades about science and faith is that, thanks to the proliferating advances in human knowledge gained as a result of increasingly sophisticated science, there is no longer any “need” for faith. There are multiple unstated assumptions involved in such an assertion, most notably that humans created religion…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: BILLY GRIBBIN is the new face in the office of Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), moving over from Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) where he was Communications Director to assume the same duties on the Senate side. The upper chamber is familiar ground for Billy because he spent a year and half in 2018-2019…
CONTRADICTIONS: What About Matthew and Acts on Judas’ Death?
Whenever the word “traitor” is mentioned, many folks think of Judas Iscariot, who was paid 30 pieces of silver for betraying Jesus into the hands of the Roman and Jewish authorities in Jerusalem, who then subjected Him to mock trials, torture, and death by crucifixion. But Judas threw the silver back at the Temple Pharisees…
FOUNDATIONS: Why Christians Should Be Involved In Government
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. There’s a pretty simple reason Christians should be involved in government. “Because…
SUNDAY SONGS: ‘Gotta Serve Somebody’ by Bob Dylan
Pay particular attention to Dylan’s lyrics as they focus us in like a laser beam on the fundamental question all must answer: Homepage photo credit: Photo by weston m on Unsplash
CONSIDER THIS: Oxford Mathematician John Lennox Answers ‘Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing’
It’s the inescapable question for anybody who contemplates for even just a second the universe in all of its splendor, mystery and pain, then asks, “Why am I here? Why is it all here? Why is there something rather than nothing?” John Lennox, the much-admired Oxford mathematician, Christian apologist and philosopher addresses this question and…