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.
This Is Why Computers Will Never Be As Smart As Humans (And Why God Must Exist)
If you work on the Hill, then you know Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning and 5G are all “next-big-things” in technology, and, when they are combined in the near future, computers will rule our world by functioning in ways that seem almost human. Well, just not quite human. That little bit of “just not quite”…
HARD FACTS: Persecution Is Every Day for North Korean Christians. This Is Sang-chul’s Story
Americans of all stripes tend to ignore the reality that the world is full of torture, persecution and martyrdom for millions of Christians in other countries. It’s not here, so we only think about it occasionally, if at all. Sang-chul is a North Korean who faces the prospect of death every day because that is…
No, The First Christians Did NOT Practice Socialism (No Matter What Your Professor Claimed)
Millennials and, especially, Generation Zers are more open to “socialism” than any previous generation of Americans, according to surveys like this one from Axxios/Survey Monkey. If it’s true, it’s significant because so many congressional staffers are in the Millennial and Gen Z age ranges. That shouldn’t come as a surprise, given the typical college professor…
THINK ABOUT THIS: What Is ‘Truth?’
Good morning, it’s Sunday, September 8, 2019. Wrap your mind around this: “According to dictionary.com, truth is the true or actual state of a matter, or, a proven or verified principle or statement. If truth is proven and verified, it is absolute, not relative. “Think about it: if truth is relative, why should our kids go…
Resources For Finding Community While Working On The Hill
By Bret Bernhardt In my last post, we discussed the importance of community while working on Capitol Hill. The Fall is always a good time to take stock of your community, since it typically comes on the heels of time away from work during the summer and a break in your routine. Now it’s time to get…
HILL STAFF MOVES: Look Who’s Getting Promoted
Recent Moves, As Reported By Legistorm: Garrett Exner’s newest assignment is as military legislative assistant to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Exner is a 2019 MA graduate of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. This is Exner’s first Capitol Hill job. Danny Jativa is Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s new communications…
APOLOGETICS: Professor Crushes ‘Early Christians Just Gave Jesus Borrowed Pagan Resurrection’ Myths
There was a time more than a century ago when it was not uncommon to hear religion scholars argue that early Christians borrowed from common Middle Eastern pagan resurrection myths of their day to explain away Jesus’ death on the cross and the fact of His missing body. But about the only place that claim…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Here’s The Sin That Is The Key Factor In Causing Racism, Other ‘Isms’
We don’t hear much on Capitol Hill these days about “sin.” It’s one of those words associated with another time, a different moral culture, the America of yesterday when religious terms were more prominent in public discourse. Today, the talk is about “racism,” “anti-semitism,” “age-ism” “nationalism” and related terms. But what if there is one…
At The Beach For Labor Day … Hope You Are, Too
Back Tuesday, September 3. Enjoy The End Of Summer 2019.
HILL STAFF MOVES: Look Who’s Getting Promoted!
Recent Moves, As Reported By Legistorm: Justin Weiss motors into the communications director slot for Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.). Previously, Justin was a senior associate at the Rational 360 lobbying firm. He’s a 2014 Denison University graduate, earning a B.A. in french language and literature, and communications and sociology. Sara Garcia has saddled up as…