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.
This Analysis Of Hill Staff Is Unlike Any You’ve Ever Before Heard
Bill Walton graciously invited me to come on his show recently and we talked for 25 great minutes about why Hill aides are among the least well-known, but most influential groups in the nation’s capital, Christian apologetics, HillFaith, journalism, and much more. These two graphs from my response to Bill’s opening question set the tone…
Bipartisan Duo Of Former Hill Aides Say Mandatory Covid Testing Needed For Members And Staff
Kendra Barkoff Lamy is a former press secretary for then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE). Doug Heye was deputy chief of staff for then-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA). There’s not much politically on which these two agreed. But they both contend it’s past time for Congress to adopt a program of mandatory Covid testing for Members…
Justice Department Sides With Capitol Hill Baptist Church Against Bowser, D.C. Government
Capitol Hill Baptist Church (CHBC) is being unreasonably burdened by District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. government with its anti-Covid regulations that effectively bar members of the congregation from exercising their First Amendment right to religious freedom, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). “Here, Defendants (collectively, the Honorable Muriel Bowser…
FAMILY: At-Risk Kids Get Life-Changing Help At Christian Schools, Study Finds
Most conversations, especially on Capitol Hill, about public versus private education focus, unfortunately, on the relative merits of the two systems in terms of test scores and job preparation, according to a new joint study by the Institute for Family Studies (IFS) and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Not that doing well on the SAT…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Late Term Abortions Are Rare, Limiting Them Will Only Hurt Women
It’s one of those axioms of contemporary conventional wisdom that partial-birth and late-term abortions are extremely rare, and thus not something with which policymakers at the federal and state level need be concerned. Imposing limitations on these procedures will only hurt women and open the door to repealing womens’ rights across the entire spectrum of…
MY STORY: Jesus’ First Disciples Followed Him ‘Immediately;’ But Me, I Had To Be Fired, Twice
When Jesus called his first four disciples, He simply said “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men,” according to the Gospel of Matthew (4:18-22). Note the reaction of the four men. Matthew tells us they each “immediately” dropped what they were doing and followed Jesus. They left behind their way of making…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said: ““I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” — John 14:6 And C.S. Lewis said: “A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Got a question about Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY) concerning her views on civil rights, native Americans, technology, health or families (and lots of other issues as well)? Then the person you need to talk to is Christopher Cox, Clarke’s new Senior Policy Adviser. He is moving up from being Clarke’s Senior Legislative…
What’s This? Atheist Group Files SCOTUS Brief Backing Christian Student’s Right To Witness
Three cheers for the American Humanist Association (AHA), which has filed a brief in the Supreme Court case of Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski, that will be argue soon before the nation’s highest tribunal. Contrary to the appearance of the case title, it’s about the right of individual students — in this case, Chike Uzuegbunam, a now-former…
What Kind Of Syrup Should Go On Your ‘Mantle Bottom Pancakes?’
If the headline above makes no sense at all, that’s almost certainly because most folks have never heard of Mantle Bottom Pancakes since they have nothing to do with breakfast. They have everything to do, however, with places like the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The Mantle is what’s below the surface of the…