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.
STAFF MOVES: Look Who Is Getting Promoted On The Hill
Recent Staff Moves, As Reported By Legistorm: Kate Gould is the new senior policy adviser to Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), following a stint as a foreign policy fellow at the Congressional Progressive Caucus Center. She is a 2007 graduate of Western Washington University with a BA in international development, political science and international relations. Gould…
WORKPLACE ISSUES: There Are Multiple Staff-Related Provisions In The Congressional Reform Package
A path to bigger personal staffs for House Members could be cleared if the bipartisan recommendations from the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress are adopted. All House staff members would be paid twice a month instead of the monthly compensation schedule they have worked on for decades, under the recommendations. Modernization panel Chairman…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Jesus Can’t Be The Only Way To Heaven Because All World Religions Are The Same
One of the most frequently heard objections to Christianity is that Jesus claimed to be the only way to Heaven, as He did at John 14:1 when He said: “I am the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the Father but through me.” But exclusive claims like that just grate on…
WORKING ON THE HILL: Three GOP Senate Freshmen Among Top 10 For Staff Pay
Data compiled by Legistorm finds three Senate Republican freshmen among the top 10 best-paying solons in the upper chamber of Congress, according to a report published just before the Christmas break. “Among the top ten highest paying Senate offices, three first-term senators made the list: Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) with a median office salary of…
GREAT QUOTES: Author C.S. Lewis On Jesus And The Poached Egg
“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 lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Did Jesus Rise From The Dead? Here Are The Facts, Part 2
Critics and skeptics over the centuries have come up with a multitude of theories attempting to discount the claim that Jesus Christ rose from the dead three days after His death on the cross. These theories fall into four primary categories: Some sort of conspiracy. He only appeared to have died. Somebody moved His body…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Did Jesus Rise From The Dead? Here Are The Facts, Part 1
If you and I meet in the Longworth Cafeteria and begin talking, what would happen if one of us claimed to be God Incarnate? The other would quite possibly call for those nice men in white with nets, right? But what if the one of us claiming deity did something so miraculous that only God…
Christians Are Just A Bunch Of Gullible Bible Thumpers, Right?
Cold-Case Christianity’s J. Warner Wallaces Responds to a great question during a recent conversation on the campus of Ohio State University
*Welcome Back! It’s A New Year, 2020
Here’s hoping you had an absolutely wonderful holiday and that you are revved up about being back on Capitol Hill “tanned, rested and ready” for the second session of the 116th Congress in 2020. Here’s what you can expect to find on HillFaith in coming months: First, what they didn’t tell you in college about…
Remember! Jesus Is The Reason For The Season
Here’s wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I’ll be back January 2, 2020.