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.
Could The Older You Convince The Younger You? About VIP Stuff?
It’s been said that maturity is being able to admit that you didn’t really know it all when you were younger and then changing your ways of doing and thinking as a consequence. But does that process also occur when it comes to issues concerning God, your eternal destiny, what are your priorities for your…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Are ‘Thoughts And Prayers’ Appropriate When A Gunman Kills And Maims?
It seems to happen every time now when there is a mass shooting incident like those that just days ago killed and injured dozens of innocent people in an El Paso Wal-Mart and a Dayton night spot. Democrats demand new gun controls and Republicans offer their “thoughts and prayers for the tragic victims of this…
One-Third Of Americans Attend Church Regularly; More Than Half Pray Often
Fifty-four percent of Americans say they pray at least a couple of times a week and a third of them go to church at least once or twice a month, according to a national survey conducted by YouGov for The Economist. The survey asked 125 questions and was primarily focused on presidential politics and produced…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Four Serious Questions To Ask Yourself If You’re Considering Christianity
Big decisions normally require lots of thought before being made in order to make the best one possible, and nowhere is that more true than in deciding what you think and do about Christianity. Evan Minton of crossexamined.org offers four questions that anyone who is looking at Christianity should ask themselves before making a decision…
Yale Computer Science Legend David Gelernter Says Goodbye To Darwinism
Professor David Gelernter of Yale’s School of Engineering and Applied Science is famous for having predicted the World Wide Web years before its appearance, as well as having conceived or designed innumerable computing tools in wide use throughout the world. But Gelernter is also something of a Renaissance Man because he is a prolific lecturer…
THINK ABOUT THIS: 10 Reasons Why Christianity Ignited The Scientific Revolution
Greece had philosophy, Rome architecture and law, and Islam mathematics, but people of the Bible gave science a place of honor and priority
STAFF MOVES: Look Who’s Getting Promoted!
Recent Moves, As Reported by Legistorm: Ana Alegria is the new Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee deputy press secretary. Ana is a 2017 Harvard graduate in history. Cole Bockenfeld is Sen. Chris Murphy’s (D-Ct.) new national security adviser. Cole earned his MA in 2017 from the University of London’s School of Oriental and…
Here’s Three Reasons That The ‘War Between Science And Faith’ Is A Myth, Even On The Hill
So, you’re walking down a corridor in the Rayburn House Office Building one day thinking about how your boss wants an amendment to a draft bill that she really cares about when your thoughts are interrupted by a conversation you overhear between two people walking a little ahead of you. The duo appear also to…
WORKING ON THE HILL: Time To Lay Off Gen Z
It is said that every older generation looks upon every younger generation and either recoils in horror, disgust or incredulity. Having heard it from members of the Greatest Generation, I confess that I sometimes must stop and remind myself that the same things I now say about “Millennials” were once said about me and my…