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.
$15-An-Hour Minimum Wage May Be Coming For Hill Interns
At $31,200 annually, the new rate would make the first experience working for Congress much more affordable
Will You Help Me Double HillFaith’s Followers? It’s Easy, Just Ask One Person To Join You Here
Taking the Good News to the ends of the Earth includes sharing the Gospel with people working for Congress
I’m ‘Only’ An Intern … On Life In The Trenches On Capitol Hill
Here are some smart suggestions for making the most of that first post working for Congress
No, America Is NOT Becoming A Secularized Nation Of ‘Nones’
If you’ve been paying even casual attention to the news in recent months, you have undoubtedly heard that authoritative research surveys show an accelerating pace of growth in the “Nones.” These are people who check the “None” box when asked what is their religious affiliation. News articles on this theme have become a familiar part…
Captain America Must Die In Endgame. Professor Sean McDowell Explains Why
If you have followed the 22 movies that have appeared in the past decade in the Marvel Comics series, you know Endgame is coming and somebody is going to die. The question is who among the heroes will be the one to die. Dr. Sean McDowell, the Biola University professor of apologetics and co-author with…
How Can We Know Jesus Is The Only Way Without Studying All Other Religions?
That query in the headline above sounds like a reasonable question, doesn’t it? After all, if the issue is whether one of a set of possibilities is the right one, shouldn’t all of them be investigated? Stelman Smith of the Unapologetic Apologists laid that question in front of Cold-Case Detective J. Warner Wallace in the…
NEWS ALERT: Officials Scramble To Deal With Reports Of Empty Tomb
Roman and Judean officials are having a hard time Sunday explaining how or why the body of Jesus, the 33-year-old itinerant Galilean preacher crucified Friday for claiming to be God, has disappeared from a sealed tomb guarded by an elite unit of Legion soldiers. Reports of an empty tomb began circulating throughout Jerusalem shortly after…
NEWS ALERT: Controversy Erupts Amid Insistent Claims Jesus Survived Crucifixion
Roman and Jewish authorities on Saturday face persistent but unverified reports that the crucified 33-year-old man from Galilee who claimed to be God actually survived the brutal experience and escaped late Friday. “What I heard was that the man didn’t die, what really happened was he swooned, or passed out, and was thought to be…
NEWS ALERT: Authorities Execute Man Who Claimed To Be God
In a rare display of political and judicial cooperation between leaders of the occupying Roman Empire and the conquered land of Israel, authorities in Jerusalem today condemned, flogged and crucified a carpenter-turned-itinerant preacher who claimed to be the Messiah. Jesus Christ, 33, of Nazareth in Israel’s northern province of Galilee, was pronounced dead Friday following…
There’s More To Keeping Talent On The Hill Than Pay
Pay is low on the Hill but there’s more to the issue of whether to stay or go.