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.
Sunday Breakfast In Puebla
It’s Puebla Week for 2020, so I and a bunch of fellow believers from Friendship Baptist Church in Sykesville, Maryland, and a bunch of other places from around the country are here for the week to do construction work for Hananeel Baptist and to share the Gospel with the people of this beautiful city. I’ll…
GREAT QUOTES: If Thinking Is Mere Behavior, How Do We ‘Believe’ Anything?
“If mental states are nothing more than behaviors, none of us could actually know what we believe until we have observed our behavior. Yet we are clearly aware of our beliefs, sensations and thoughts even before we behave in a certain way.” — J. Warner Wallace, “God’s Crime Scene.”
Here’s What Football And Sunday’s Super Bowl Teaches Us About The Purpose Of Life
San Francisco’s 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs meet Sunday in the Super Bowl and millions of people around the world will be tuned in to watch what could be one of the most exciting such games ever. Nobody on the playing field, in the grandstands, listening on radio or watching the game on TV…
IMPEACHMENT PRAYERS: Senate Chaplain Dr. Barry Black’s Wise Appeals To The Almighty
Every day of the Senate impeachment trial has been opened with a prayer offered by Senate Chaplain Dr. Barry Black. Each of Black’s prayers has included admonitions that are particularly applicable in the current tense atmosphere, as well as in the every day functioning of Congress and the nation. On the opening day, for example,…
STAFF MOVES: Look Who Is Being Promoted On The Hill!
Recent Staff Moves, As Reported By Legistorm: Katie Earle is the new professional staff member in the office of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Republican staff. Katie comes over to the House side following her tenure as a national security fellow for Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND). She is a 2019 MA graduate in security studies and…
Have You Decided Your Life’s Core Convictions? You Will Go This Far But No Farther?
Being an aide or intern to a senator or representative in Congress is a lot like what it must have been for Daniel, the Old Testament prophet who at a young age found himself among a small group of conquered Judeans being groomed for the court of King Nebuchadnezzar. Part of the group’s three-year study…
MYTHS & MISCHIEF: You’ve Heard About ‘Pay-To-Play;’ Now What About ‘Pay-To-Pray?’
“Pay-to-play” is a phrase one hears from time to time around Capitol Hill and it’s usually not as a preface to good news or a compliment. Now comes a study of whether and how much are people willing to pay for prayers. This is no joke. The study was conducted following Hurricane Florence in September…
If God Is Good, Why Does He Allow So Much Evil And Suffering In Our World?
It’s a fundamentally important question that every human being who ever lived has almost certainly asked at least once in their time here on the Earth. Often, it’s preceded by a closely related question – Why me? The answer isn’t necessarily easy and, as NBC “Dateline” cold-case detective J. Warner Wallace makes clear in the…
LIVING ON THE HILL: Eating Meals Together Is An Important Gift To Your Spouse, Kids
It probably seems like a small thing, and working on Capitol Hill can be among the jobs that make doing it on a regular basis extraordinarily tough, but sitting down for meals with your spouse and kids may well be among the most important things you can do for them. That’s according to a huge…
THINK ABOUT THIS: What’s The Purpose Of Your Life And How Can You Know That You Know It?
There really aren’t any more basic questions than this: What is the purpose of life and how do we know that we’ve devoted our lives to something or someone for the right reasons? There are as many potential answers as there are people. I spent a good part of my life working for Ronald Reagan,…