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.
DID YOU KNOW: Majority Of State Capitols Will Have Nativity Scene Displays In 2020; More To Come
At least 31 of the nation’s 50 state capitols will have Nativity Scenes of Christ’s birth in December 2020 and one of the attorneys behind the legal campaign defending such religious expression in the public square is confident the day is coming soon when every state will have such exhibits. “The nativities are going up…
Churches Go To Court Today, Seek Relief From California’s Abortion Insurance Coverage Mandate
Attorneys from the Alliance Defending Freedom go to court today in San Francisco representing three California churches seeking exemption from a Golden State rule mandating they pay for abortions. “The government shouldn’t be forcing churches to pay for abortion,” said ADF Senior Counsel Jeremiah Galus, who will argue the case before the U.S. Circuit Court…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said: “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the…
David Limbaugh Sees A ‘Crucial Missionary Work’ In HillFaith
“I am gratified and excited that my friend, Mark Tapscott, is working with HillFaith to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ to congressional staffers on Capitol Hill. “What could be more important than this crucial missionary work to thousands of influential young people working at the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, the heart of…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Moving Up On The Hill This Week!
Courtesy of Legistorm: Hill veteran Shana Teehan has been named Chief of Staff for incoming Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL). Shana returns to the Hill following a stint as a Vice President of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Previously, she was Senior Adviser to Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) and before that Communications Director for Sen. Luther…
Survey Finds Gen Z Most Likely To View Faith As VIP In Pandemic
Three-fourths (74 percent) of Gen Zers surveyed recently by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty view religious faith are either somewhat or extremely important to them in dealing with the Covid-19 Pandemic. “Surprisingly, Gen Z respondents, who across polls tend to be less religious and least at risk during the pandemic, were also much more…
Atheist Group Goes Full Grinch, Steals Christmas From Hundreds Of Poor Kids Around The World
Students at a Kansas middle school will no longer be able to fill Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes with gifts for poor children overseas after the superintendent caved to an atheist activist group’s litigation threat. “While it is laudable for a public school to promote student involvement in the community by volunteering and donating to…
SCIENCE AND FAITH: Are People Just Moist Robots?
By Drew Covert If evolution is true, then it is singularly responsible for life on earth. We are just material beings, nothing else. In fact, we don’t have free will, or the ability to make choices. We are just moist robots. But I think this evolution produces false beliefs. I’d never thought about this idea much until I heard…
Keeping Calm In The Post-Election Storm
By Bret Bernhardt Every two years, Washington and Capitol Hill usher in a season of change and transition following elections and the coming of a new Congress. By design, no one is exempt from this change. It may be that the member or candidate you work for or will work for has lost, retired, been…