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.
APOLOGETICS: A Simple Detective Skill For The God Search
It’s almost certainly not something you would think of as a helpful tool in determining where you stand on the “Does God Exist?” issue, but the “Inside-Or-Outside-The-Room” technique might still be just the thing. The Inside/Outside technique, according to former Los Angeles homicide detective J. Warner Wallace — you may know him as the “Cold-Case…
OFFICE HOURS: Got Questions About Jesus? Or Life? Or Careers On The Hill? Let’s Talk
Check out my Office Hours schedule for this week in the sidebar to the right. If you have questions about Jesus, who described Himself as “the Way, the Truth and Life,” or how things are going in your life or anything else that puzzles you, then come on by. No appointments necessary and the coffee…
Here’s America’s 10 Most ‘Post-Christian’ Cities
Yesterday, it was a joint report from the Barna Group and AlphaUSA indicating the Millennial generation is more open to Christianity than the conventional wisdom holds. Today, Barna has the top 10 post-Christian cities in America.
New Study Debunks Conventional Wisdom That Millennials Don’t Care About Spiritual Issues
It’s become something of a truism that the Millennials are far less interested in spiritual matters and thus much harder to talk to about things like what it means to be a “Born-Again” follower of Jesus Christ. But a new study jointly conducted by the Barna Group and Alpha USA finds that while there is…
HARD FACTS: 10 Reasons Jesus Is The Most Influential Person In All Of Human History
Whatever your view of Jesus of Nazareth, there is little room to question the claim that He is the most influential individual in history, even though he lived a mere 33 years two millennia ago in a backwater region of the Roman Empire. Australian blogger and pastor Kurt Mahlburg says that is why Jesus is…
JOBS: Getting In The Door On Capitol Hill
By Bret Bernhardt Securing a meeting with your prospective employer is an important step in the process of landing a job on Capitol Hill. Before we get into the mechanics, it’s important to recognize that looking for a job is one of the most stressful things you will do in your professional life. After all,…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Ever Wonder ‘Who Created God?’
The answer begins with understanding what it means to live outside of time
How A Young British Astronomer Proved Albert Einstein’s Theory Of Relativity
Yes, today is Memorial Day, but it’s also just two days short of the 100th anniversary of the proving of what has been termed the greatest scientific achievement by a single individual in the history of mankind. That was when British Astronomer Arthur Eddington and two teams dispatched by the “Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee of…
Happy Memorial Day!
If you work on Capitol Hill, you know that Memorial Day originated from the American Civil War, which cost more lives than any other conflict in the nation’s history. Did you also know that at 3:00 PM on Memorial Day (May 27, the last Monday in May 2019), the nation officially pauses for a moment…
JOBS: Where Your Best Job Lead Is On Capitol Hill May Surprise You
By Bret Bernhardt Conventional wisdom may say the best path to a good job on the Hill is through the hiring manager. That may be a chief of staff, legislative director, or state/district director. However, there’s a surprise twist. More often than not, I have seen the best job leads for young and junior staff…