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: Are We Mere Specks or Members of a Privileged Species?
When you get up in the morning and look in your bathroom mirror, are you looking at a mere speck of matter, one of billions upon trillions of specks that make up the material universe? Or are you one of legions of examples of the most privileged species on Earth? If you follow and agree…
CONSIDER THIS: Six Reasons to Believe in Jesus
There are and have been throughout human history figures people have identified and worshipped as deities, but there is one fact that separates Jesus Christ from Buddha, the Hindu pantheon of gods, Zeus, Caesar and indeed all of the rest of them. Jesus was crucified dead, and buried, but three days later, He was alive,…
CONSIDER THIS: Can Space Aliens Be The Real Intelligent Designer?
By Geoffrey Simmons It is readily apparent that life itself, and human beings in particular, were designed by an intelligent mind. The digital information system found in every person’s genome, and all of the ramifications, are evidence enough. All of our complexities upon complexities upon complexities, portrayed vertically and laterally on graphs, could not have…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: CRAIG TRAINOR takes on his first challenge as a congressional aide and it is in a major role, Senior Special Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee and the Chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). He is the former Senior Litigation Counsel for the America First Policy Institute. Craig earned his JD in 2005…
LONG STORY SHORT (5): The Unsolved Challenge to Origin of Life is Replication
Science has “proven” that life can evolve from non-life, right? That’s what we’ve all been told over and over and over for decades. But the reality is that there are lots of scientifically significant problems with that contention. The Discovery Institute’s Long Story Short video series describes these multiple problems in animation and narration that…
HillFaith’s ‘Office Hours’ Are Back! A Listening Ear And Maybe Some Useful Advice
Working on the Hill is not easy. The new challenges are big and small, continuous, and sometimes incredibly frustrating. That is why it sometimes helps to have somebody to turn to for advice who has been around the Hill Merry-Go-Round a few times, somebody who knows how to listen and who can offer sound advice….
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ Up On The Hill This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: AUSTIN CROMACK moves into the Special Counsel slot for the House Judiciary Committee, working for the Chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). Previously, Austin was Deputy Counsel at the Republican National Lawyers Association. His BA degree was awarded in 2015 in Political Science, Religion and Religious Studies from Arizona State University, while his…
RIGHT OR WRONG: What Does It Profit A Man To Gain The Whole World But …
There is a wonderful scene near the end of the trial of Sir Thomas More in the movie classic “A Man For All Seasons” that serves admirably to illustrate the contemporary application of Jesus’ well-known maxim: “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul?” In the movie, More…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Can Darwinian Evolution Explain Both Man’s Origins And Our Morals?
Lord Alfred Tennyson, the 19th Century British poet, famously described nature as full of violence and death, “red in tooth and claw.” He thus captured in a most vivid image the idea that survival of the fittest is the basic law of nature. The image is also a fitting starting point for an introduction to…