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.
MIRACLES BY DESIGN: You Really Have No Idea How Many Stars Are in the Universe
(5:36 VIEWING) — Some people count sheep when they can’t get to sleep. One thing you don’t want to start counting is the number of stars in the universe. Doing that may put you to sleep faster than counting sheep but odds are you’ll never count the last star. Why is that? Because the universe…
TESTIMONIES: Brit PhD Neuroscientist Found Jesus Christ After THIS Happens
(9:57 VIEWING) — British neuroscientist Dr. Sharon Dirckx struggled for years with the apparent disjunction between science and faith, especially concerning the Creation account in Genesis, the opening book of the Bible, and things she learned in biochemistry. Ultimately, Dirckx earned a PhD from Cambridge University in brain imaging and MRI, and along the way…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Should Christians (or Anybody Else) Celebrate Halloween?
(5:42 VIEWING) — If you grew up anywhere in America in the last century, you celebrated Halloween as a kid, putting on your costume, grabbing a bag to fill with candy, and joining friends to walk the neighborhood house-to-house. Sure, people dressed up as ghosts, skeletons, vampires, mass murderers, witches and other ghastly characters, but…
Congressional Aides Explain Why They Keep Coming Back to HillFaith’s Monday Lunches
(QUICK READ) — Dozens of aides with jobs at all levels of responsibility from 36 congressional offices and both parties meet on Mondays on the second floor of a townhouse located right behind the Supreme Court building for a unique lunch experience. They call it “For Hill Aides Only” and it has been meeting in…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Open Positions, New Hires, Big Promotions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM TATUM GRESSETT takes over as Deputy Member Services Director for the House Republican Study Committee (RSC), working for Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas). Before moving into his new responsibilities, Tatum served the RSC as a Staff Assistant. Tatum is a 2023 graduate of Clemson University with a BA in…
SCIENCE AND FAITH: Call of the Cosmos
(6:30 VIEWING) — Have you ever looked up into the night sky, been in awe of how many stars and planets you can see and then remembered that we Earthlings can’t even see the vast majority of the heavenly bodies because the universe is so vast. There is a familiar current in contemporary thought that…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: John Adams
(QUICK READ) — John Adams was America’s second President and, with Thomas Jefferson, deeply involved in the writing and editing of the Declaration of Independence that made the American Revolution a reality. In the following brief quote, Adams made clear his understanding of the role of Christianity in the founding of this greatest nation of…
TESTIMONIES: History Professor Found Undeniable Evidence for the Resurrected Jesus Christ
(11:38) — University of North Carolina History Professor Molly Worthen grew up in a home in which religion and faith were all but absent, so she had little exposure to the explosion in recent decades of scholarly and apologetical evidence for Jesus’ literal resurrection. After completing her PhD in history at Yale University, Worthen settled…
MILESTONES: Christian Apologist Dr. Voddie Baucham’s Last Lecture
(55:08 VIEWING) — Dr. Voddie Baucham’s passing last week at the age of 56 due to a “sudden medical incident” was greatly overshadowed by the continuing public discussion of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, as well as the increasing violence in riotous protests against ICE in Chicago, Portland and elsewhere. Baucham was born to a single mother…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is Sports Gambling Good or Bad?
(5:20 VIEWING) — Did you know there is a significant increase in domestic violence whenever a highly favored team loses an important game? Or that bad checks, maxed out credit cards and other indicators of risky financial decisions are significantly higher? Perhaps shockingly to some, the reality is this problem simply gets no coverage in…