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: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said: “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him and we will come to him and make our home with him. The one who does not love me will not keep my word. The word that you hear is not mine but is from the Father who…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Moving Up On The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Alex Bolton sets up shop as Chief of Staff for incoming Freshman Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY). Alex is moving over from being Field Finance Director for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC). He is a 2013 graduate of Colorado State University with a BA in Political Science and Ethnic Studies. Bethany Berntson…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is The Christmas Season Just A Pagan Holiday?
You may have heard that Christmas is little more than the early Christians’ co-opting a bunch of pagan holiday traditions and practices in order to not be left out of all the fun. It’s often presented as a snarky way of more generally discrediting Christianity. Shane Morris of the Colson Center takes the snark apart…
HERE’S A CHRISTMAS SPECIAL YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS
No, you won’t see Bing Crosby singing “White Christmas.” Charlie Brown, bless his heart, is nowhere to be seen in it. And nobody stands up behind a podium and starts preaching. It’s “The Chosen” Christmas Special. This actually is something very special for Christmas. With an extraordinary lineup of group and individual artists, and a…
The Ultimate Humility Of The Birth Of Jesus Is The Key To Our Peace At Christmas And All Year Round
His coming had been predicted hundreds of years before by the prophet Isaiah in the description of the future birth of Israel’s Messiah in Bethlehem. Yet, at first glance, there seems nothing humble about it: “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his…
Meet The Platypus, God’s Ala Carte Creation For The Animal Kingdom
You probably don’t think much about the Platypus, surely one of the oddest creatures on Earth. But as ungainly and strange as the Platypus may look, it is in fact an incredibly remarkable mammal. Eric Lyons of the Apologetics Press takes us on a fascinating tour of the many unique features of the Platypus, noting…
Did You Hear About This Crowd-Funded Series Miracle?
Here’s the official trailer for Season One. Season Two is coming. “The Chosen” is paving the way for a crowd-funded entertainment future. One of the geniuses behind it is Matthew Faraci of Inspire Buzz and a veteran of the Bush II administration at the Department of Labor where he labored (get it?!) to make unions…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Have You Ever Read Jesus For Yourself?
One thing that is true for most everybody who works on a congressional staff is that there is no end to things that must be read, or really should be read as soon as there is time, or that look like it might well be useful to read. Then there is Jesus. Or the books…
Here’s Your Choice: Deterministic Scientific Materialism Or Free Will
Think about this question very carefully before jumping to your conclusion. Are we human beings products of: A. Billions of years of strictly material processes operating in predictable patterns that determine everything about us, including what we think, how we act and the desires in our hearts and minds? B. Or are we human beings…
WORKING ON CAPITOL HILL: Traveling The Hard Road
Working on the Hill can often be a tough road to hoe. One day you can do something that makes you look like the smartest person in the room, but then the next day you goof something up because you were still riding yesterday’s high. Keys to making it: Remember where you came from. Ask…