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.
THINK ABOUT THIS: Here’s the Flax You Need to Know About Rahab the Prostitute
“Little” details can sometimes provide enormously important clues to the bigger story and there is a superb illustration of this reality in the Biblical account of how Rahab the Prostitute in Jericho hid the two Jewish spies. The nation of Israel has completed its 40-year wandering in the Wilderness and is now poised on…
EXPLAIN THIS: Is It By Chance or Design That Geckos Can Walk on Ceilings Without Using Suction Cups?
If you’ve watched five minutes of TV in recent months, you’ve seen the Gecko, the Aussie accented lizard advertising for GEICO, the insurance company. GEICO has turned its Gecko into a marketing phenom so effectively that millions of Americans think of the insurance company as soon as they hear the word “Gecko.” But the real…
Why Jesus’ Resurrection is Likely the Best Documented Historic Event Ever
Today is Easter Sunday. Two-thousand years ago on this day, Jesus’ disciples, beginning with Mary Magdalene, began claiming His tomb was empty and they had seen and talked with Him because He had been resurrected from the dead. If that claim is true, it is the most remarkable fact of history and the central event…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: CHAD TENPENNY put in 24 years working for Sen. Robert Dole, Sen. Pat Roberts and Sen. Roger Marshall, all Kansas Republicans, and now he is leaving the Hill to start a Private Law Practice focused on Government Affairs, General Counsel Services and Political Consulting. Congrats on a great Hill career, Chad. Moving…
Jesus is Not a Democrat, or a Republican. He Changes the Lives of Both!
There aren’t a lot of issues on which Democrats and Republicans agree these days. If you work on Capitol Hill, you are expected to line up with one party’s agenda for America or the other, and to think, speak and act in accordance with that agenda. But what about the agenda of your life? Do…
Can You Really Come to Faith While Working in a Science Lab?
Dr. John Bloom teaches physics at Biola University and has two Phds, one in physics and the other in Near Middle Eastern Studies. Kind of a rare combination, but he also did a lot of work and study in chemistry, “Why not,” he chuckles, anticipating perhaps a logical question. Bloom grew up in a conservative…
SUNDAY SONGS: ‘God of All My Days’ by Casting Crowns
God of All My Days I came to You with my heart in pieces And found the God with healing in His hands I turned to You, put everything behind me And found the God who makes all things new I looked to You drowning in my questions And found the God who holds all…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: HARTLEY VOSS is the new Speechwriter for the Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ). Hartley has a BA in Communications from American University and an MFA in Cinematic Arts from the University of Southern California. Hartley is formerly a Researcher for “Mad Men” and “Orange…