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.
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? They Say the Classics Must Go
With the onslaught throughout the American public education system of analyses based on Critical Race Theory and related claims about “white privilege,” it comes as no surprise to hear demands that “the classics” should be done away with as relics of past injustices. Whether it’s classics like Aristotle’s “Nichomachean Ethics,” Thomas Aquinas’ “Summae Contra Gentiles”…
STAFF NEWS: Turnover Rate For House Aides Hit 20-Year High in 2021
Data compiled by Legistorm shows the highest single-year turnover rate among House staffers since the company began compiling information in 2021, according to Ketura Hetrick. “House turnover has crept upward since about 2009, but the pandemic and Capitol insurrection pushed far more staffers than usual to leave their jobs in 2021 – 55 percent more…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill (Might Be Somebody You Know!)
Courtesy of Legistorm: JENNIFER PIERCY is the new Economic Development Director for Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV). Jennifer is a 2003 MA graduate in Journalism and Political Science from Marshall University and she also earned her BA from Marshall. KNOX MCCUTCHEN: Moves into the Communications Director slot for Rep. Cliff Bentz (R-Ore.) after serving stints…
Bet You Didn’t Know This About Camels
No, camels do not store water in their hump (or humps in the case of Asian camels), so that’s not why they can go days or even months without so much as drinking a drop of water. But they can eat prickly cactus plants without injuring their mouths. The reason camels can eat cactus plants…
THE CHOSEN: Jesus Meets the Samaritan Woman at the Well
From The Gospel of John 4:1-26 (English Standard Version) 4 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 3 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. 4 And he had to pass through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town of Samaria…
DID YOU KNOW? Jesus Ignited The Flame of Literacy and Schools
Remember the bumper sticker that you often saw on cars and trucks on suburban streets that declared “If You Can Read This, Thank A Teacher”? It’s true, all of us have had teachers at one time or another who dramatically affected the course of our lives for the better. But did you know it was…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Why Atheists’ Books Are Evidence God Must Exist
There has been a raft of best-selling books in recent years by the likes of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Stephen Hawking and others arguing that science makes belief in God unnecessary. These “New Atheists” argue that unguided chemical evolution is all that is required to explain the origin of life and unguided biological evolution…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: DANIEL MORALES moves from Latham & Watkins LLP to Special Counsel for Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the Ranking Minority Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Morales is a 2019 Harvard Law School graduate and his BA from Fordham University in Political Science and Government was awarded in 2014. Joining Speaker of the…
EXPLAIN THIS: Meet the ATP Synthase, the Molecular Energy Machine
Common sense tells us that things that are designed to be and function a certain way in concert with other designed elements require an intelligent designer. That’s the logic behind the idea of irreducible complexity as evidence for Intelligent Design as essential to understanding the universe and life. Consider the ATP Synthase, described by the…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Is There Really Evidence For Life After Death?
Lee Strobel spent years as a Chicago Tribune reporter and Legal Editor, and for most of those years he was not a follower of Jesus Christ. But that changed after he was challenged by his wife to give the claims of Christ the same litmus test that he would use in his reporting. At the…