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.
If You’re Worried About The 2020 Election, Jesus In His ‘Sermon On The Mount’ Has The Solution
With the 2020 election day less than two weeks away, a lot of folks who work for Members of Congress on Capitol Hill or back home in their home states are worried, really worried, about what happens when the votes are all counted. There will be winners and losers, so a lot of staff members…
What If The Bible Doesn’t Say What You Think It Says?
It’s the most widely read book in human history, but the Bible may well also be the most frequently mis-understood or mis-represented written work ever produced. Lots of people think the Bible says a lot of things that on closer inspection turn to out to be merely aphorisms or maxims. Perfect example is the cliche…
WORKING ON THE HILL: What A Conversation Today Between Thomas Jefferson And Martin Luther King Jr. Might Be Like
By Bret Bernhardt Working on Capitol Hill provides many opportunities unlike those found in other workplaces. Recently, my wife and I along with a close friend took a bike ride around the Tidal Basin where the monuments of Martin Luther King and Thomas Jefferson stand. It struck me that these two men now stand juxtaposed…
QUICK TAKES: What Is The Truth About Christianity And Slavery?
Without Christianity, there is no anti-slavery movement in the world. Think about that. It’s only in Western civilization beginning in the early years of the church that we find stirrings of anything resembling anti-slavery thinking and action. Slavery remains to this day a feature of life in many parts of Asia and Africa where Christianity…
Here’s One Photo That Shows Why Partial-Birth Abortion Is Wrong
Two things have long puzzled me about the abortion issue. First, everybody in the political debate on the issue knows, whether they publicly admit it or not, that unborn human beings are always the victims, whether they are killed 12 weeks into a pregnancy, 25 weeks or one minute before birth. Second, if no human…
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Are All Christians Intolerant Bigots?
Yes, there are people who call themselves Christians who are intolerant of all kinds of things. But don’t confuse them with the biblical faith defined by Jesus Christ, who saves men and women of all races, nations, creeds and ideologies. The truth is that bigotry and intolerance are found among individuals of both genders, who…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned,…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Austin Heitzinger is the new Staff Assistant in the office of Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ). Austin was previously a Public Affairs Intern for SKDKnickerbocker. He also has extensive campaign experience in Oklahoma. He earned his BA from Central State University in Oklahoma in Political Science and Government in 2018, and he will…
Consider The ‘Seven Diversities’ Of Jesus’ Appearances After Being Resurrected From the Grave
We hear about “diversity” frequently in the public forums these days, but rarely is that quality of people and things considered in the context of historic events such as the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But, as J. Warner Wallace of Cold-Case Christianity notes, there are seven diverse factors in the resurrection — let us refer…
10 Things About Your Brain That May Blow Your Mind!
Did you know, for example, the evidence is mounting that it is realistic to envision in the not-too-distant future being able to control a prosthesis for a lost limb with nothing more than thoughts? Or that, while there are some striking similarities between the human brain and computers, assuming that neurons are like microprocessors and…