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: Patrick Henry on His Deathbed
(QUICK READ) — Patrick Henry was not a signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, nor was he a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, but he is among the most well-known members of the Founding generation, thanks to two of his stirring speeches and his role in the adoption of the Bill…
TESTIMONIES: MLB Catcher James McCann Was a Miracle Baby, And So Much More!
James McCann has played catcher for the Detroit Tigers, Baltimore Orioles and New York Mets during a Major League Baseball career that has seen him hit an Inside-the-Park Dinger for his first home run, catch a perfect game, be named to the American League All-Star team, and much else. But there is a story behind…
MIRACLES BY DESIGN: The Awe-Inspiring Heavenly Fires of the Northern Lights Point to God
(7:39 VIDEO) — Once you’ve seen the Northern or Southern lights — aka the Aurora Borealis — you should ask yourself where all of the natural elements that come together to create this awesome display came from and why they came about. Scripture is clear that the natural world speaks brilliantly and accurately about God….
CONSIDER THIS: Hold on There! What If Life on This Earth is NOT Natural?
(25-MINUTE VIDEO) — If the headline above poses what seems at first glance to be a nonsense question, hold on because a careful look at the natural laws of physics in the material universe don’t seem to provide for any processes that would produce what we know as living, breathing, thinking life. In the following…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is Sports Gambling Really Just Harmless Fun?
(SIX-MINUTE VIDEO) — Sports betting was legalized in most states earlier in this decade and in the years since, it has exploded as millions of mostly men take advantage of the instant access afforded by the Internet and cell phone. Long gone are the days when betting on NFL games, or major baseball contests, or…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Do We Have This Kind of Courage Today?
(QUICK READ) — Faith of the Founders is a regular Tuesday feature on HillFaith.org, but we were so impressed with the iron firmness of this declaration by Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson issued a year before the Declaration of Independence that we are sharing it here today: “With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Open Positions, New Hires, Job Promotions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: SAIF KHAN is the new Senior Adviser on the bipartisan staff of the House Select Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party Committee. Saif received his law degree in 2010 from Ohio State University, his MA in Physics in 2007 from Wayne State University…
CONSIDER THIS: How Rainbows and the Archer’s Weapon Are Connected
A vivid rainbow shortly after a storm passes through can be a beautiful and even inspiring experience, both because of it’s sheer uniqueness and its ancient symbolic power, as told in the Bible at Genesis 9:12-17. They usually aren’t visible for long but they remain in our memories long after they vanish from sight. And…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Why Jefferson Would ‘Tremble for my Country’
(QUICK READ) — “And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Is This the Single Most Powerful Word in Scripture?
(SHORT VIDEO) — It’s not where you might have assume it to be, such as David defeating Goliath or maybe the day of Pentecost when 3,000 men and women heard Peter’s sermon and became followers of Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. No, this one word, this most powerful word in all of Scripture,…