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.
You Know 747 Wings Have Designers, So Why Don’t Eagles’ Wings?
Let’s talk about airplane wings for a bit. Over the decades of aeronautical design and development since the Wright Brothers’ first flight in 1903, engineers have come up with multiple configurations for wings. There were originally biplanes with multiple stacks of forward wings, followed by monoplanes with just one level, but with some located in…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Moving Up on Capitol Hill (May be Somebody You Know)
Courtesy of Legistorm: TREVOR WHETSTONE is the new Chief of Staff for Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT). Trevor comes to the Hill after stints in the White House, Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security. Trevor’s law degree is from Ava Maria School of Law in 2006. He also earned MAs from Catholic University of…
RIGHT OR WRONG? – ‘Religious People’ Should Stay Out of the Legislative Process
If you’ve been around Congress for any length of time, you’ve likely encountered this argument in one form or another – Religious people should stay out of the public square so they can’t impose their beliefs on everybody else. There is a superficial logic to that assertion because, after all, religious faith is a deeply…
THINK ABOUT THIS: 12 Facts About a 15-Week-Old Unborn Baby You May Not Know
Nine justices of the Supreme Court heard oral arguments today on the Mississippi law that begins limiting elective abortions at the 15th week of pregnancy. America is one of only a handful of nations that allow elective abortions after the 15th week. The 15th week is an important point in the development of the unborn…
THINK ABOUT THIS: How Culture Got to the Point of Joking About Killing Unborn Babies
This essay by Natasha Crain first appeared on her web site November 10. Given the arguments being heard today before the Supreme Court regarding abortion, it seems totally appropriate to direct HillFaith readers’ attention to Crain’s superbly perceptive analysis about how America got to this day: This weekend, Saturday Night Live cast member Cecily Strong…
LONG STORY SHORT: Is Homology Evidence for Evolution Without God?
Have you ever compared the structure of your foot with that of your dog’s paws? Probably not, but Charles Darwin did a lot of that kind of thinking, which is known among science nerds as “Homology.” That’s the study of “the similarity of the structure, physiology, or development of different species of organisms based upon…
A Thanksgiving Remembrance and Meditation
Every Thanksgiving for decades, the Wall Street Journal has reprinted a page from William Bradford’s account of the last night of the Pilgrims in the Netherlands before their departure to cross the Atlantic on the Mayflower for the New World. Even without the Journal’s annual reprinting, however, Bradford’s account has been read countless times by…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Definitions Matter a Great Deal
Imagine two people are talking about “rights,” “freedom” and “justice” and, even though they are using the same words, they keep coming to dramatically conflicting conclusions about what those words actually mean and how they are actualized. The problem very likely is that they are using the same words, but they each mean something quite…
STAFF NEWS: Three of Four Hill Aides Say They Are Satisfied With Their Jobs But …
Results from the survey by the House Office of Diversity and Inclusion (HODI) of attitudes among congressional staffers about their workplaces, compensation, benefits and bosses are revealing some unexpected results and a few apparent contradictions. Asked to agree or disagree with the statement “Considering everything, I am satisfied with my job,” a huge majority, 75.6…
EXPLAIN THIS: 10 Embarrassing Facts About Jesus You Probably Don’t Know
Jesus Christ is the most famous person who ever lived. Two millennia after He walked in Judea and Galilee, billions of people worship Him as the Son of God. More books have been written about Him than any other person in history. His words are studied in virtually every country on the face of the…