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 1): Homology, Common Descent or Common Designer?
If one wanted to redefine an inconvenient term in such a manner as to make it a conversational resource rather than an obstacle, giving it a seemingly positive new name is the ticket. Believe it or not, that’s very much like what happened to the word “Homology.” Example: Instead of calling “circular reasoning” circular reasoning,…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Who Got Jesus’ Dead Body?
There are a thousand ways to approach a conversation about Jesus Christ, but in the final analysis, it all comes down to one crucial question — Why was His grave empty on the third day after His crucifixion and burial? The answer of the Gospels is, of course, that, just as He predicted before the…
New Barna Group Survey Finds Christians Are The Most Generous Americans
Americans have long been known as the most generous people on the face of the Earth, but who are the most generous among them? A new nationwide survey by the Barna Group market research firm points to “Practicing Christians.” The Barna Groups survey results are reported in “Landscape of Giving,” the first of what is…
THINK ABOUT THIS: The Life-Giving Miracle of Water
Where would we humans be without water? Well, there is a reason the Bible uses water to symbolize life and salvation — without water, there is no life, simple as that — as at Revelation 21:6. That said, the physical properties of water are amazing and go a long way toward explaining why life is…
THINK ABOUT THIS: The Miracle of the Human Heart
Did you know you were born with a miracle beating within your chest? Biologist and medical doctor Michael Denton describes in the following video the amazing characteristics that make the heart such an astounding organ. Did you know, for example, that with every contraction, your heart pumps 100 billion red blood cells through hundreds of…
DID YOU KNOW? Materialists Have Been Bashing Intelligent Design Since Greece and Rome
Dr. John West, Director of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, explains in the following video that critics of the claim that the universe exhibits evidence of being designed have been attacking Intelligent Design (ID) ideas from the earliest days of the Christian church in the First Century AD and before that. West…
Time For Some Time Off
Back in a week (or maybe two). (Photo by Christy Ash on Unsplash)
What’s This? Academic Researchers Say Bible Reading Reduces Gen Z Stress?
New analysis in which researchers from the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center (NORC) teamed with those at the American Bible Society (ABS) confirmed that members of Gen Z – those Americans born between 1997 and 2012 — are among the unhappiest people in the country: “We see the effect of Scripture engagement even…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Got a media inquiry for Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio)? Then JAIDA HAMPTON, the new Press Secretary in the Beatty operation, is the person you need to see. Jaida previously was a Legislative Fellow for Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas). Jaida’s BA in Journalism and Pre-Law Studies was awarded in 2020 by the University…
SCIENCE UPRISING: No, We Human Beings Are Not Just Accidental Specks In A Universe Without A Purpose
Let’s get real about the most basic question of all – Why is there something rather than nothing? Or to put it another way, why does the universe exist and how did we living, thinking, feeling human beings get here? At the most basic level, there are only three possible answers: The universe has always…