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.
WORKING ON CAPITOL HILL: Broad Coalition Of Advocacy Groups Urge Staff Pay Raises
A coalition of good government groups, think tanks and concerned individuals urged four key leaders in Congress in a March 4 letter to support increased pay for the 20,000 mostly young men and women who work for senators, representatives and committees. The letter was addressed to House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Minority…
Actor Ben Afleck Found ‘The Way Back’ And It’s Not Just A Movie
Ben Afleck has seen and done it all on the silver screen. “Batman.” “The Accountant.” “Pearl Harbor.” “The Sum of All Fears.” “Armageddon.” And don’t forget “Good Will Hunting.” He’s also spent a lot of time on the front pages of the tabloids. Lots of women. Lots of booze. Lots of ups and downs and…
STAFF MOVES: Look Who’s Being Promoted On Capitol Hill This Week
Recent Staff Moves, As Reported By Legistorm: Got a question about member services on the House Republican side? Natalie Joyce is who you need to see because she’s the new Deputy Chief of Staff for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). Natalie has been with McCarthy since January 2011. She’s a 2008 BA graduate in communications…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Are You Breathing God’s Air While Denying He Even Exists?
“Imagine a person who comes in … and argues ‘no air exists’ but continues to breathe air while he argues. “Now intellectually, atheists continue to breathe — they continue to use reason and draw scientific conclusions [which assumes an orderly universe], to make moral judgements [which assumes absolute values] — but the atheistic view of…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Why Are So Many Young People Unhappy?
Maybe it’s not you or anybody you know working on Capitol Hill, but the data makes it clear that young people, especially college students and those who have graduated in recent years, are indeed, overall, more unhappy than previous generations. Why is this? We live in the most prosperous, most technologically advanced and best educated…
The Flaw That Isn’t In The Paley Argument That A Watch Requires A Watchmaker To Be Created
Watches don’t just magically appear out of nothing or assemble themselves without any outside assistance, therefore there must be a watchmaker doing what scientists and philosophers today call “intelligence design.” The preceding paragraph is a modern restatement of William Paley’s Watchmaker argument for the existence of God. Just as the watch requires a watchmaker, the…
NOW SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: Cave Art And Comic Books Or Another Look At Human Exceptionalism
Comic books never did much for me but there is no doubt that they are among the most influential kinds of literature and have been for decades. But did you know they go all the way back cave art? Me either. Leave it to biochemist Fazale Rana to lay this out in a fascinating post…
STAFF MOVES: Look Who’s Being Promoted On The Hill This Week
Recent Staff Moves, As Reported By Legistorm: Aryn Fields is now Communications Director for Rep. JaHana Hayes (D-CT). Previously, Aryn was Press Secretary for Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX) and before that interned in the personal staff office of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY). She is a 2018 MA graduate in political communication from American University and she…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Why A Great Archeologist Came To See Luke As A First-Rank Historian
“Sir William Ramsay, one of the greatest archeologists ever to have lived, was a student of the German historical school, which taught that the Book of Acts was a product of the mid-second century AD and not of the first century, as it purports to be. “After reading modern criticism about the Book of Acts,…
EMERGING ISSUES ON THE HILL: Great News For Kids! The Nuclear Family Is NOT Disappearing
It’s almost a truism among academics, the mainstream media commentariat and many Washington policymakers that the nuclear family — one married man and woman plus their kids — is a dying institution in America. Not so, according to Institute for Family Studies (IFS) Senior Fellow W. Bradford Wilcox, writing recently in The Atlantic in response…