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’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…
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…