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.
WORKING ON THE HILL: Whose Morality Are You Imposing Today?
It’s one of the most commonly heard warnings whenever debates erupt in Congress or elsewhere in our public policy forums with even the remotest links to divisive social issues — “Don’t impose your morality on me!” But if you work in Congress, the reality is that you are in one way or another, to a…
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What About Josh Harris, Take II: The ‘Dreadfully Misguided’ Purity Culture Didn’t Steal Her Faith Ericka Andersen was one of thousands of teens who read “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” by Josh Harris in the 1990s. Now he’s left the faith, but Ericka hasn’t. Here’s why. Friday, August 2, 2019. THINK ABOUT THIS: Great Things Christianity…
What About Josh Harris, Take II: The ‘Dreadfully Misguided’ Purity Culture Didn’t Steal Her Faith
Ericka Andersen is a very sharp digital expert, writer, speaker and an unusually insightful analyst of American cultural trends as they are shaped by religious experience and beliefs. She’s also a veteran of what she describes as “the dreadfully misguided marketing effort evangelical leaders in the 1990s created to dissuade teens from sex before marriage.”…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Great Things Christianity Actually Has Done For The World
There seem to be more than a few folks on the Hill and elsewhere in the public arena these days who apparently believe Christianity is not a positive good in terms of its influence on society, the law, economics and social justice. To which I must respond “Ah Grasshopper, you have so much yet to…
STAFF MOVES: Look Who’s Getting Promoted!
Plus, should Hill workers enjoy whistleblower protections? Looking for a congressional job?
What About Josh Harris?
If you are between 25 and 40 years old and from a conservative religious background, odds are excellent that you know the name “Josh Harris.” As a very young man, Harris wrote a best-selling book — “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” —in 1997 that helped propel the so-called “purity culture” in evangelical circles. The core message…
LET’S LAUGH! Comedian Jeff Allen Looks At How So Many Couples Deal With Resentments
Admit it, if you are married, you got some resentments regarding your spouse. Bad things happen to couples who don’t get their resentments out in the open and talked about. Comedian Jeff Allen performs in churches across the country and if he doesn’t make you laugh — and think about your next conversation with your…
7 Tests That Show The Gospels Are Trustworthy Accounts of Jesus’ Life, Death And Resurrection
Christianity is either established or destroyed by whether or not a single historical event actually happened, as claimed in the four Gospels concerning the resurrection of Jesus. If Jesus was indeed resurrected three days after being crucified dead and buried, then was seen and heard by a multitude of witnesses in the 40 days thereafter,…
THINK ABOUT THIS: No, Your Mind Isn’t A Computer; It’s Much Better
An often-heard analogy is of the human mind to a computer, but Winston Ewert, a software engineer at the Biologics Institute, thinks the comparison is way out of place. “The human mind is complex and multifaceted. It encompasses reason, emotion, and action. We don’t say that about computers,” Ewert writes in a post for Mind…
STAFF MOVES: Look Who’s Getting Promotions!
Recent staff moves, as reported by Legistorm: Curtiss Kalin is now communications director for Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), after serving in the same post for more than three years at Citizens Against Government Waste. He’s a 2013 graduate of George Mason University. Jessica Roxburgh, a Hill veteran of more than six years, is now press…