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.
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Alexander Hamilton Examined the Evidence for Christianity and Believed
(QUICK READ) — Alexander Hamilton was born as an illegitimate child on the Caribbean island of Nevis. His father was James Hamilton, a Scots merchant, and his mother was Rachel Faucett Lavien, who was an English-French Huguenot. Abandoned by his father, Hamilton was raised by his mother. Hamilton’s origins did not prevent his rise through…
AMANDA REPORTS: Barna Research Turns Up New Evidence of Revival Across America
(519 WORDS) — Older generations are seeing a turning toward God in younger adults, with prayer as a strong indicator signaling genuine spiritual revival could be on the horizon, recent Barna Group research suggests. In an interview of 5,003 U.S. adults, research conducted by the Barna Group asked, “Do Americans Think Spiritual Revival Is Coming?”…
EASTER ISSUES 2026: What Happened When the Thief on the Cross Arrived at Heaven’s Gate?
Pastor Alistair Begg describes what happened after the thief on the cross who repented of his sins and asked Jesus to take him with Him to heaven actually appeared at the Gate of Heaven. Begg is a bit tongue-in-cheek but he uses the illustration to make a fundamentally important point. Enjoy! And The Rest…
EASTER ISSUES 2026: What Reagan Said About Good Friday
(QUICK READ) — Former President Ronald Reagan was from the generation of American men who didn’t often speak publicly about their Christian faith. That was a private matter for them. But Reagan did after becoming the nation’s Chief Executive occasionally did speak of his faith. Here’s what he once said about Good Friday: “I still…
EASTER ISSUES 2026: Why You And I Are Both Thieves On The Cross
(578 WORDS) — Today is Good Friday, the day Jesus Christ was convicted in a kangaroo court for telling the truth about Himself, tortured mercilessly until His back was torn to a hideous bloody mass of skin and muscle ribbons, and then finally brutally nailed to a cross where He suffered for hours till His…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Easter Issues 2026 – Is Jesus’ Resurrection Fact or Fiction?
(SIX-MINUTE WATCH) — Today is Good Friday, the day in history when Jesus Christ was subjected to multiple kangaroo court trials, sentenced to die for telling the truth about Himself, grievously tortured, then nailed to a cross where he died in a few hours. With any other individual, such a gruesome death would have been…
EASTER ISSUES 2026: The Monarch Butterfly’s Demonstration of The Resurrection Miracle
(2:18 VIEWING) — Monarch butterflies are beautiful creatures, but you may not know how their resurrection wings point us to the central message of Easter Sunday. Even if you do know about this process, you are in for a treat because the following John 10:10 Project/Illustra Media production is a delight to the eyes and…
EASTER ISSUES 2026: Did Jesus Disciples Imagine, Or Make Up, the Resurrection Story?
(5:00 VIEWING) — It is a familiar assertion among older critics of Christianity that the claim about Jesus being resurrected from the dead three days after His crucifixion was the result of a conspiracy among the 11 surviving disciples, either as a way of coping with grief or as a venal means of profiting off…
EASTER ISSUES 2026: Most of America’s Founders Thought Creation Required a Designer
(9:59 VIEWING) — There is in the most well-known words of the Declaration of Independence solid evidence that this nation’s founding generation was convinced through revelation and natural reason that there is a supreme being who is the source of all fundamental individual human rights. Those words, of course, are based on the Declaration’s opening…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Daniel Webster on Faith and American Prosperity
(QUICK READ) — Daniel Webster represented Massachusetts in the Senate during the crucial decades leading to the American Civil War, so he was not present during the Revolutionary War or the writing and adoption of the Constitution. But Webster was among the chief luminaries of the second generation of American national leadership and he was…