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.
EXPLAIN THIS: Why Did These Ancient Authors Write About ‘Jesus’ If He Didn’t Exist?
Contemporary discussions about Jesus of Nazareth among mixed groups of Christians and non-Christians will not infrequently include at least one mention of the argument that He never actually lived. The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were all based on an invented character, not a real, living person, according to the argument, so all…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ Up On Capitol Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: In her first job on the Hill, Catalina Constain Shin takes over duties as Constituent Services Representative for Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL). Catalina received her MS in International Public Service in 2014 from DePaul University. Miriam Cash is the new Deputy Communications Director for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), moving up from her…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is Sex ‘Assigned’ at Birth?
How many genders are there? Two, male and female, or well, how many would you like there to be, today? The latter attitude is reflective of the only-recently-heard view that sex and gender are “assigned” at birth and can thus be changed later in life. In a word, they are a choice, not a condition….
THINK ABOUT THIS: Black Pastor Explains Four Basic Tenets of Critical Race Theory
There are two kinds of people who work on congressional staffs these days — Those who are trying to come to terms one way or the other with Critical Race Theory (CRT) and those who soon will be. And it doesn’t matter if you are a scheduler, chief of staff or any other position on…
How Atheist J. Warner Wallace Became Christian J. Warner Wallace
J. Warner Wallace of Cold-Case Christianity was not born into a family of Christians. He didn’t go to a Christian school, either as a child, a teen or as a young adult. When he joined the Los Angeles Police Department, Jesus was nowhere on his life’s radar screen. Wallace was, quite simply, a professing atheist….
EXPLAIN THIS: Who Got His Body?
That Jesus was crucified dead and then buried in a tomb the New Testament describes as that of Joseph of Arithamea is not disputed by the vast majority of scholars. That His body disappeared is also not disputed, so the question then is what happened to it? Was Jesus resurrected, as His disciples claimed? Or…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Ashley Phillips is the new Scheduler in the office of Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), moving over from the same position with Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV). Ashley earned her MBA in Healthcare Management in 2018 from Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA, and her BA in Human Resources Management from Liberty in 2015. While…
Just in Case You Wondered Where I Was Memorial Day Weekend …
I was sitting with my incredible son, Marcus, just outside of Turn Two at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Sunday taking in all of the intoxicating sights and sounds of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing, the Indy 500. This was not your typical Father-Son outing. I’ve been a racing fan since I was about five years…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Evidence That the Gospels are Based on Eyewitnesses
Mention eyewitnesses in the Gospels to a biblical skeptic like Bart Ehrman and the response will a litany of claims that amount to either accusing Matthew, Mark, Luke and John of making it all up, or that the church in the century after them embellished their work with legendary stuff. That legendary stuff included, according…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ on Up the Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Malikha Daniels is the new Staff Director for the House Committee on Agriculture’s Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture and Research, working for Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI). Malikha previously was a Policy Analyst for the subcommittee. She earned her MPP from American University in 2018 and her BA in Spanish Language and Literature in…