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.
Millions More Americans Are Reading the Bible
There is encouraging news from the results of the latest American Bible Society/Barna Group “State of the Bible” survey of Americans’ reading relationship, or lack thereof, with the single most influential book ever written. Among the highlights of the survey of more than 3,350 American adults and Gen Zers are these: Over half of U.S….
There’s Still Time To See If Can You Solve God’s Crime Scene
FOR HILL AIDES ONLY! Eight Weekly One-Hour Noon Sessions Featuring J. Warner Wallace “God’s Crime Scene” For years, Wallace’s toughest cold murder cases were featured on NBC’s “Dateline.” Now he uses those same skills to assess the evidence for God. WHO: Click Here For A Special Video Message From Wallace WHAT: Eight FREE 1-hour noon weekly sessions, led…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Angele Griffin makes the big move from Intern to Legislative Assistant for Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Angele is an MPP candidate in Public Policy at George Washington University and received her BA in International Studies in 2019 from the University of San Francisco. Aaron Thurman is…
Does America’s Government Still Respect the First Amendment?
By Sean Feucht, Writing for The Federalist: “Last weekend the world saw a fearless man of God, Pastor Artur Pawlowski, arrested for leading a church service. This faithful pastor, who escaped the iron fist of communist rule in Poland as a child, was handcuffed on the streets of Canada and thrown in jail for refusing…
What Would You Say: Don’t Impose Your Religious Beliefs on Me!
When James Madison sat down to write the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights, he opened it by noting that Congress “shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or the free exercise thereof …” Madison thereby enshrined in America’s fundamental law the distinction between freedom of religious belief and freedom of religious…
MILESTONES: Today is a Huge Day in the History of HillFaith
Starting today at noon, HillFaith will host a For Hill Aides Only edition of the “God’s Crime Scene with J. Warner Wallace” course that examines how investigative skills that solved 30-year-old murder cases can also be used to examine the evidence for God. The eight one-hour-each sessions will convene at the Faith & Liberty Ministry…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up On The Hill This Week!
Courtesy of Legistorm: Lou Hrkman is the new Senior Policy Advisor for Republicans on the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis subcommittee on environment and climate change, working for Rep. David McKinley (R-WV). Lou previously was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy under President Trump and before that was McKinley’s Policy Adviser. Lou, a former Electronics…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Three Reasons to Think Twice on Gene Editing
Being able to intervene in the DNA of an individual human being in order to eliminate their vulnerability to a lethal disease or otherwise bring about major improvements in their quality of life sounds like a no-brainer, right? That gene editing can have genuinely profound impacts on society as we know it today is beyond…
Think About This: Beauty by Chance or by Design?
Check out the photo accompanying this post. It’s a shot of a neighbor’s recent creation after a lot of thought, planning, choices and work. As it happens, I absolutely love Spring because it brings Azelias and Tulips. But I took this photo specifically to display here on HillFaith because of a truth it beautifully illustrates:…
Are You Willing to Bet Against the Odds Pascal’s Wager is Right?
Blaise Pascal was a 17th century French mathematician/physicist/theologian who came up with a famous “wager” with which he sought to illustrate his conviction that believing in the existence of God makes far more sense than not believing. Is Jesus Alive’s Erik Manning describes Pascal’s Wager as follows: * If God exists and we commit to…