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.
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Who’s Right About Sex Before Marriage, Hannah Or Luke?
Not being one who follows ABC’s “The Bachelorette,” I wasn’t aware of the epic blow-up that occurred recently when Luke sort of asked Hannah if she would remain celibate until marriage. Thanks to Chrissy Clark of The Federalist, however, I not only know about it, I’ve also benefitted from reading the author’s interesting take on…
Here’s Why The ‘God Of The Gaps’ Theory Doesn’t Work
There are folks who believe pretty much everything has been explained via natural science, so there’s really no need anymore for God, except maybe to explain those few remaining gaps in our knowledge. Thus the phrase “God of the Gaps.” NBC “Dateline” cold-case detective J. Warner Wallace was asked about this by The Unapologetic Apologists’…
WORKING ON THE HILL: The Best Resources For Finding A Job On Capitol Hill
By Bret Bernhardt In this series, we’ve talked about the best way to land a job on the Hill and offered some helpful tips on how to do that. While a great network, a pertinent resume, and a successful interview are important, the greatest likelihood of getting a Hill job will happen one of two…
WORKING ON THE HILL: They Made The Transition From Being Staffers To Members Of Congress
Excellent story today on The Washington Examiner by Naoimi Lim on former congressional staff members who went back home, ran for Congress and won. There are also some former Members who came back as staffers. “At a personal level, going from staff to member, the hardest thing is to not staff yourself. I drive my…
THINK ABOUT THIS: You Are A ‘Poiema’ (That’s A Great Thing To Be, By The Way!)
There is a passage in the New Testament that is among my favorite in the entire Bible and that’s saying something, considering that the most widely read literature in all history is more than 1,000 pages in length and includes 66 discrete books written by about 40 people over a period of thousands of years….
How To Be Confident Christianity Nails It On All The God Questions
Christian apologists like J. Warner Wallace, the famous NBC “Dateline” cold-case detective, speak to lots of college and high school groups and they often get the most penetrating questions from the students. Such was the case at the recent Grounded Youth Apologetics Conference hosted by the Donelson Fellowship in Nashville. A student noted that Wallace…
Blessed By New Friends From Real America
It’s not often that you get an email from somebody you don’t know telling you they read (and actually like!) your stuff, will be in D.C. the next day and wonder if they could stop by to say hello and introduce themselves. Of course I said yes and so I had the pleasure Tuesday of…
Have You Bowed Down To Your Smartphone Yet Today?
If the question posed in the headline above strikes you as curious or confusing, you aren’t alone. I was initially puzzled by the headline on the essay that prompted this post, too. Fr. Dwight Longnecker was in Italy recently where he paused to look around at the throng of people and noticed how “the universal…
HARD FACTS: Americans, And Most Everybody Else, Too, Are Becoming More Religious Today, Not Less
It is a commonplace in many of the most influential public policy precincts in the nation’s capitol these days — including among congressional aides working for senators, representatives and committees — that Christianity is in steep decline in America, that the country is fast becoming more secularized with every passing day. That certainly appears to…