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.
And Then Linus Actually Drops His Blanket. Can You See Why?
Hat Tip to crosswalk.com for pointing this minor little detail that is so full of meaning even after all these years since “A Charlie Brown Christmas” first aired.
Reasons The Appearance Of Design In Biology Means There IS A Designer
Two aliens from a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, Earth’s nearest star beyond our Sun, walk into a bar in Amsterdam arguing about Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch,” which they just saw at the Rijks Museum. After a few minutes of intense debate, one alien looks at the other and announces “say what you will, but I’m…
THINK ABOUT THIS: The Kalam Cosmological Argument For God
It’s Friday, the impeachment hearings are done for now, the Thanksgiving Recess has begun and your boss is likely heading back to his or her home district or state. So, unless you are headed there, too, you can breathe a little today, right? So take five minutes and consider this simple, logical, three-step argument for…
STAFF MOVES: These People Are Climbing The Ladder On The Hill
Recent Staff Moves, As Reported By Legistorm: Suzanne Lane is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s new digital director, moving over from her previous slot with the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Suzanne is a 2015 graduate of the University of South Carolina with a B.A. in political science and government. Kayla Rillo moves over to…
Since When Is It Illegal To Pray At The White House???
Richard Patten didn’t just fall off a turnip truck on a Washington, D.C. street day before yesterday. The man has been a mover and shaker on the conservative side of things in this town for a long time. Patten is also a Christian and he loves this country. For years, he’s been going to the…
This Woman’s Story Will Make You Weep … Until You Hear The End
What do you do with this? “When I was two, my mom left me on the doorstep of a dope man’s house and she never came back. She left us there on promises that she would come back to pay for the drugs, and she never came back.” Billy Hallowell, writing at FaithWire, tells us…
The Claim Of ‘Moral Relativism’ Is Actually A Cultural Myth With Vast Influence
There’s no such thing as moral absolutes. As long as you don’t hurt anybody else, whatever seems right to you is just fine. Everybody knows that, so do it! That’s the absolute truth. Well no, it’s not and among the best evidence that it’s not is the fact hardly anybody lives by that maxim, according…
Here’s The ‘Chicken-And-Egg’ Dilemma That Confronts Atheists
Is it really possible to explain the origin of life from non-life without God? Lord knows, smart people like Stephen Hawking and legions of others who deny or ignore the possibility of God as creator have been trying for centuries. But they face what NBC “Dateline” Cold-Case Detective J. Warner Wallace calls the “Chicken-And-Egg” dilemma…
New Study Demonstrates Whether Marriage Or Living Together Make People Happier
How you choose to live with the person you spend the rest of your life with is just as important as who they are
Is This How You Would React To A Big Setback At Work?
Quarterback Nick Foles went from being Super Bowl MVP with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2018 to breaking his clavicle in his first game with the Jacksonville Jaguars earlier this year. To put Foles’ situation in a congressional staff context, imagine getting a big promotion from a good job on an important House staff to a…