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: “And he said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ — Matthew 22:37-39 And C.S. Lewis said:…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is Being Gay Genetic?
It’s all but an article of faith among gay rights advocates that same-sex attraction is rooted in genetics, therefore, the argument goes, it is not a question of moral choice, but nature. A decade or two ago, public discussion of the search for “the gay gene” was common, but not so much in more recent…
This May Be The Most Famous Man You’ve Never Heard Of
His name was Father Patrick Peyton and he was uniquely a man of public prayer. He prayed with Hollywood celebrities like Frank Sinatra and he drew crowds of thousands and thousands of regular Joes and Joans attracted by his intense passion for God. Come October 9, there will be a movie out about Father Patrick…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ Up On The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Returning to the Hill as a Policy Analyst for Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee is Clare Paoletta, working for Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR). Clare was previously Project Coordinator for the National Association of Community Health Centers and before that an Intern for Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI). Clare expects to…
California Church Changes Course, Moves Services Back Outdoors
Just a few weeks ago, North Valley Baptist Church Pastor Jack Trieber was vowing his Santa Clara, California, congregation would not submit to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Covid restrictions. “We are not closing down this church,” Trieber declared in a video address that went viral on the Internet. That declaration came after officials imposed more than…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Who Created God?
Ever have this conversation? You: God created the universe from nothing. Other Person: Okay, but who created God? J. Warner Wallace, the former NBC “Dateline” cold-case detective who is now a nationally known Christian apologist, answers the “who created God” question with an analogy from his days delivering search warrants:
Had An Epiphany Lately?
Epiphanies are those moments in life when something suddenly and without warning becomes clear in our lives and we begin to see things with new insight — and perhaps begin to think and do differently as well. For my part, probably the most important such moment in my life came at 9:15 am in the…
FAITHFUL DISOBEDIENCE: Here’s The Absurdly Detailed California Covid Orders to Prevent Churches From Meeting To Worship Indoors
California authorities are clearly determined to make an example of Pastor John MacArthur and Grace Community Church (GCC) in Los Angeles County in retaliation for defying the state’s ban on indoor worship meetings. The ban has been challenged by other California congregations, but MacArthur is an internationally known evangelical pastor, book author and opinion molder….
What Would You Say? Is Critical Race Theory Biblical?
If you work on Capitol Hill, you better understand Critical Race Theory (CRT) because it suffuses, both esoterically and exoterically, so much of the analyses of social, political and economic issues heard in media, on campus, in the think tank world and in politics. If you are Christian who works on Capitol Hill, it’s even…
More Americans Of Marriage Age Are Remaining Single
Wendy Wang of the Institute for Family Studies points to two seemingly contradictory trends in the American family: “America is in the middle of two simultaneous trends related to marriage. Marriages today are more stable, thanks to the steady decline of divorce rates since the 1980s. “At the same time, however, a declining share of…