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 One Sentence Will Help Kill Your Anxiety
It’s Wretched’s Todd Friel, here on HillFaith for the first time. We all get anxiety. If you work a high-pressure Hill job, anxiety can be a regular companion. But there is one way to deal with it that beats all the others:
Facing The Dartboard Syndrome: Sometimes It Just Feels Like They Never Stop Coming
If you are a follower of Jesus Christ who works on a congressional staff, either for an individual senator or representative, or a committee, or one of the congressional agencies like CBO or GAO, you likely face “the world” in ways that are unique to politics and government. And it can sometimes be overwhelming. Been…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ Up On The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: A sharp crop of rookies comes to Capitol Hill this week, starting with Lucy Gardner who is taking on her first challenge in a congressional job, as a Staff Assistant on the Senate Appropriations Committee for the Chairman, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.). Lucy’s BA is in communicative disorders from the University of Alabama in…
The Computer Revolution And The Information Age Point Directly to Intelligent Design
Read the following two graphs. If you, like me, are not a Ph.D. in computer science or quantum physics, odds are you won’t fully understand the implications for the God question: “We now know that three quantum fields undergird physical reality — the electron, the up quark and the down quark. These ‘particles’ are in…
Here’s The Dilemma Humanism Can’t Solve But Christianity Can
Had a birthday a few days ago. How old am I now? Let’s just say, as President Reagan often did, that it was the 41st anniversary of my … okay, moving right along. It doesn’t really matter how old I became, what is really important here is that the occasion means I completed another of…
An American Mother Theresa In Alabama
Not sure how I missed this story in December when The Federalist first published it, but it is an amazing and true account of a woman who has given of herself to her own six children and 20 foster kids. “Over the decades she was a foster mother, Kennedy cared for many children who had…
Why The Truth Matters Even More Today Than Ever Before
There is no such thing as absolute truth. What’s true for you may not be true for me. It’s all relative. It’s impossible to know what is truth because there are so many different opinions, so why bother? You’ve heard all of those claims, or variations thereof, especially if you pay attention to the news,…
Some Critical Thinking On Critical Theory And How Some Christians Are Responding To It
Natasha Crain earned her MBA in statistics from UCLA, so she knows how to read the numbers. But she is also pretty good at sorting out the meanings behind and beyond words and phrases, too. “Critical Theory” is being heard regularly these days. It’s been a commonplace on American campuses for several decades, but it…
DID YOU KNOW? If You Accept The Big Bang, Then Logically, You Also Must Accept Miracles
It all started with the Big Bang, right? Billions of years ago, there was nothing of the universe but empty space. No Earth. No stars or moons. Nobody anywhere. Nothing but … lots and lots of nothing. Then the Big Bang happened and, well, the rest is literally history, right up to this moment as…
Lecrae Explains What It Means When He Says ‘I Am Second’
If you know Hip Hop, then you know Lecrae. But do you know why he is glad to be second? And to whom is he second? Or how he came to be?