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: A Massachusetts Declaration
(30-SECOND READ) — “It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society, publicly and at stated seasons, to worship the Supreme Being, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping God in the…
CONSIDER THIS: Harvard/Tufts Biology Prof Says Goodbye to ‘Physicalism’
By Daniel Witt There’s a pattern you notice in science writing. Whenever a scientist is positing something he thinks is really far-out or paradigm-shaking, there will come a place in his writing when he stops and clarifies that he is not, of course, trying to cross The Line. He is not (of course!) saying that…
MORNING JOE STAN: Two Boys, a Lost Lamp and a Dark Mine
(QUICK WATCH) — It’s 1915 and two young boys in North Carolina out exploring come upon the entrance to a cave. Being boys, they of course go into the cave and begin following it deeper and deeper into the Earth. Suddenly, the boy carrying the only lamp they have drops it and the light goes…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Trump Joint Session Address Got Mixed Reviews From Congressional Aides
(QUICK READ!) — Three quarters of the American people were quite impressed by President Donald Trump’s Tuesday night address to a joint session of Congress, but aides working for senators, representatives and congressional committees were far less impressed. Overall, 45 percent of respondents to this CNCT Capitol Pulse survey taken in the hours after the…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is Intelligent Design Science or Religion?
(SEVEN-MINUTE WATCH) — It may be the most frequently heard objection to the Intelligent Design (ID) school of thought regarding the origin of the universe and of life on this Earth – “ID is not science, it’s religion masquerading as science.” That objection is often offered along with another closely related one – “ID is…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: MICHELLE SCHEIN moves into dual roles as Deputy Chief of Staff and Legislative Director for Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ). Michelle is in her ninth year working Capitol Hill, including her most recent previous stint as a Congressional Adviser in the State Department. She has an MA in Defense…
SECRETS OF THE CELL (Episode 4): What If Random Mutations and Natural Selection Can’t Explain Life’s Origin?
(SEVEN-MINUTE WATCH) — How do you get to something from nothing? How does billions of years of chance combinations of characteristics that together don’t ensure survival, somehow stumble upon a combination that does contribute to survival? In the fourth episode of biochemist Michael Behe’s “Secrets of the Cell” video series, he addresses the fundamental questions…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Rev. Jonathan Mayhew on Faith and Liberty
(ONE-MINUTE READ) — “It is my fixed resolution to do all I can for the service of my country, that neither the republic nor the churches of New England may sustain injury. Having been initiated in youth by the doctrines of civil liberty, as they were taught by such men as Plato, Demosthenes, Cicero and…
TESTIMONIES: US Martial Arts Hall of Famer Jamie Vaughn Put the Pistol in His Mouth …
(10-MINUTE WATCH) (AND WORTH EVERY SECOND!)— Jamie Vaughn had built what seemed on the outside to be a tremendously successful life despite having been abandoned as a child by his parents and raised by grandparents. Vaughn became a Martial Arts Master and was so good at it that he became a coach of such renown…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Three-fourths of Congressional Aides Back Partial or Full Ban on Processed Food
(QUICK READ) — When President Donald Trump appointed Robert F. Kennedy Jr to be Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), it put the latter’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) agenda centerstage on Capitol Hill and across the nation. One of the central MAHA initiatives is reducing or entirely eliminating the nation’s dependence on highly…