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.
Massive Ground-Breaking Data Analysis Identifies Relationship Satisfaction Predictors
How important would it be to you to know that your spouse was as committed to your marriage as you are? A huge new analysis of 43 discrete datasets says that factor may well be the most important predictor of whether the two of you will be happy together. Writing for the Institute for Family…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Porn Improves Relationships
Odds are good that at some point in the recent past you have heard somebody on a talk show, during a cable tv discussion, or maybe during lunch conversation claim that pornography can improve a relationship. The latest in the Colson Center’s excellent new video series, “What Would You Say?,” addresses this issue and offers…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said (to the believing thief on the Cross): “I assure you: Today, you will be with me in Paradise.” — Luke 23:43 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 a…
WORKING ON THE HILL: Hearing Of The Select Committee On The Modernization Of Congress On Staffing Issues
Earlier this summer, the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress convened a hearing on staff compensation and benefits. The basic issue — what to do about low pay and high turnover rates — was the central question of the day. Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-WA) is chairman of the panel, while Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA)…
This Is The Real Game-Changer In The ‘Is Jesus God?’ Debate
Put aside everything else you’ve ever heard or thought about Jesus Christ, then ask yourself what is one fact that, no matter what it is, would absolutely decide the question of whether or not He is God? But remember this: For your thinking to be as clear and logical as possible, don’t allow yourself to…
WORKING ON THE HILL: There’s Good News And, Mostly, Bad News About Staff Salaries
If you worked for a couple of years on the Hill beginning in 2000 at the end of the Clinton presidency and the dawn of the second Bush White House, then came back this year in the same position, you would probably see a 35 percent pay hike. That conclusion is based on Legistorm’s calculation…
Harvard Scholars Say Faith And Marriage Are Two Pillars For An Enduring Economic Prosperity
Dr. Patrick Fagan of Marripedia offers concise summaries of two important recent works — one from two scholars at Harvard and one from Cal State Long Beach — who marshal mountains of data that demonstrate the solid connection between strong religious faith, strong marriages, and strong economic prosperty. I had the privilege of working with…
WORKING ON THE HILL: God’s Purpose For You Is Now
By Bret Bernhardt It’s easy to feel as if you are standing still or even stuck in your present circumstances. This applies to your life, both on the job and off. Everyone who has worked on the Hill has had these feelings from time to time. Oswald Chambers, in his daily devotional, “My Utmost for…
Five Reasons Christianity And Racism Are Absolute Opposites
If it were possible to have a society based entirely and solely on Christianity side-by-side with a society based entirely on racism, would they have anything, anything at all, in common? The answer is no. Christianity’s understanding of why we are here is so profoundly unlike the understanding of the many racist ideologies that have…
DID YOU KNOW? Here’s Why Jesus Is Nothing Like The Pagan Deities
Oxford Professor Emeritus John Lennox addresses a fascinating question: How are the countless pagan gods of the ancient world different from the God of the Bible who came among us as Jesus Christ? For one thing, Lennox points out, all of the pagan gods came from creation in some manner, out of the primordial soup…