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.
LONG STORY SHORT (Episode 5): Can You Solve The Water Paradox?
Linking polymers — the required building blocks for all living things — is an essential step in the creation of life. Without such linking, there is no building of the DNA and RNA strands that are crucial for the process. How important are polymers? Here’s how the smart guys at the Discovery Institute, who produced…
A Little Down Over The Election? Here’s Some Great Counsel
James Hurley is one of the earliest supporters of HillFaith and his regular intercessory prayer alerts are a regular and much-appreciated feature in my email’s inbox. His latest alert hit home with me this morning and so I am sharing it with HillFaith readers weary from the constant drumbeat of election news: Greetings to All:…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Once A Woman, Always A Woman?
If a Supreme Court Justice is unable to provide a definition of a “woman,” should we conclude that person is alarmingly deficient of common sense, purposely being evasive or merely attempting a subtle bit of mockery? Actually, then-Supreme Court Justice nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson was defended by more than a few people in the media,…
Nine Archeological Discoveries That Confirm The Bible’s Historical Accuracy
More copies of the Bible have been bought than any other book in the entire recorded history of the Earth, making it the most influential book ever published. But the Bible has in recent years also been derided by skeptics as little more than a collection of fables, myths, legends and yarns. For example, for…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Here’s The Number That Explains Why Evolution Can’t Add Up
Let’s think about computer programming. Behind every computer application is a coding that determines how your laptop will perform a particular operation, be that refighting World War II in “Call of Duty” or using Turbo Tax to prepare your return. Programming is essentially arrangements of sequences for the 1s and 0s that result in desired…
WORKING ON THE HILL: Big Progress on Staff Salaries in 2022
A new analysis by the House Chief Administrative Officer finds significant advances in staff salaries on a position-by-position basis, with an overall average increase of 23 percent increase from 2021 to 2022, measured as of September. A total of 6,000 House staff positions were measured for 2022, compared to a slightly higher total in 2021,…
Jesus’ First Question: ‘What Are You Seeking?’
Open the Gospel of John and you find in the first chapter at verse 38 that the first question Jesus asked anybody was His query to two of the disciples of John the Baptist, asking them “What are you seeking?” The two men had left a conversation they were having with John the Baptist and…
Bet You Didn’t Know There’s 18 Trillion Feet of You!
If 18 trillion feet sounds like a lot, it is, it is almost incomprehensible. But as the following video from the John 10:10 Project demonstrates, the figure is a measure of the total DNA strands in the three trillion cells that make up one human body. Stretched end-to-end, the DNA strands for one human being…