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.
FAMILY: New Study Finds Covid Quarantining Has Mixed Effects On American Teens
A new study produced some unexpected results in assessing the effects of the national lockdown on American teenagers beginning in March in response to the Covid crisis, including the fact teens did less gaming. The study by the Institute for Family Studies (IFS) and the Wheatley Institution was authored by was authored by Jean Twenge…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Why Doesn’t Everybody Agree About God?
Take two people of equal intelligence, similar life experiences and educational attainment, and in the same level of professional success, then hand them the Bible and what happens? Don’t be surprised if one of them believes the Bible and the other doesn’t. Why does that happen? How can two similarly situated intelligent people reach diametrically…
HARD FACTS: Humans Have Killed 33 Unborn Babies For Every One Covid-19 Death
It is said “a picture can be worth a thousand words,” but it can often be far more true (and hugely significant for those working on Capitol Hill) that a few numbers can save millions of lives. Consider the following worldwide data from Worldometer, from Jan. 1, 2020 to Oct. 12, 2020, as of 10:36…
Federal Judge Tells D.C. Mayor She Cannot Ban Meetings of Capitol Hill Baptist Church
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Trevor McFadden ruled late Friday in favor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church (CHBC) in its request for a preliminary injunction against the District of Columbia government’s ban on congregational meetings of more than 100 people. “The Court determines that the church is likely to succeed in…
FAMILY: Data-Driven Studies Show Fathers Are Massively VIP To Kids
When federal policymakers named one of the most important social welfare efforts aimed at helping feed children in poverty, they dubbed it the “Women, Infants and Children” (WIC) program. Fathers somehow were left out. At one level, that title simply reflected the depressing reality that millions of fathers sire children, then fail to support them…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said: “Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem. Everything that is written through the prophets about the Son of Man will be accomplished. For He will be handed over to the Gentiles and He will be mocked, insulted, spit on; and after they flog Him, they will kill Him, and He will rise…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Moving up to Staff Assistant from an internship with Rep. David Kustoff (R-TN) is Morgan Nunnery. Morgan earned his BA in economics this year from the University of South Carolina. Also moving to a Staff Assistant position is Hailey Webre, joining the operation of Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), following internships on the…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? When Somebody Claims That Voting Just Isn’t Important
If history is any guide, nearly half of all voting-age Americans will fail to vote on election day, November 3, when the country picks its 46th president, a new Congress and scores of other officials for state and local governments. But for those working on Capitol Hill, voting might as well be like drinking water,…
WORKING ON THE HILL: 123 Hill Aides, Contractors Have Now Tested Positive For Covid Or Are Being Presumed Positive
A total of 123 congressional aides and contractors have either tested positive for the Covid virus or are being presumed to have the disease, according to Roll Call, quoting Ashley Phelps, a spokesman for Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL), the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Administration. “The count includes 46 Capitol Police employees, 42…
WHAT IF: All Bible Prophecies Are Just As Accurate As These Five?
Your friend tells you a check for $1 million made out in your name will appear in your snail-mail box next Wednesday morning. Sure enough, next Wednesday morning rolls around and there’s the check. That ought to get your attention, right? But maybe your friend had some way of knowing in advance that for whatever…