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.
MYTH-BUSTERS: Aren’t All World Religions The Same?
(10-MINUTE READ) — If you have been breathing on this earth for more than about 30 seconds, you have heard the maxim captured in the headline above. And, to explain the application, there were five blind men describing the same elephant. You know how it goes: The first blind man touches the elephant’s front leg…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Most Congressional Aides Thumbs Down on Adding Canada to U.S.
President-elect Donald Trump’s trial balloon about making Canada America’s 51st state is about as popular among most congressional aides as a proposal to require them to fast three days a week. That’s judging by the results of the recent CNCT Capitol Pulse survey in which 67 percent of the anonymous respondents said they would oppose…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is The Gender Dysphoria Explosion a Social Contagion?
(FIVE-MINUTE WATCH) — The Bible declares that God made man and woman. For millennia, that there are two clearly defined sexes was never questioned. Some ancient gods were depicted as being of both sexes, but not human beings. Even so, cases of young men and women, boys and girls, becoming confused about their sexual identity…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: JIM CHO heads back up Pennsylvania Avenue from the Biden White House where for two years he was a Special Assistant to the President to be the new Chief of Staff for Rep. Sydney Kamlager (D-Calif.). Prior to his White House adventure, Jim worked on the Hill from…
CONTRADICTIONS: Did David Kill Goliath Twice?
(FIVE-MINUTE READ) — Everybody knows at least the general outlines of the Old Testament story of David killing the giant Philistine warrior, Goliath, with nothing more than a sling and a smooth stone, right? That’s why atheist critics of the Bible often point to two verses in Samuel that seem to indicate that David actually…
FAITH OF AMERICA’S FOUNDERS: From the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
(30-SECOND READ) — “Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.” – The Northwest Ordinance, July 23, 1787. Quotes reprinted in HillFaith’s “The Faith of The Founders” posts are compiled from Benjamin F. Morris’ classic work, “The Christian Life and…
TESTIMONIES: Even Pumping Iron and Eating Healthy Can Be a Dead-End
(NINE-MINUTE WATCH) — Haley Erickson’s obsession with her physical appearance and eating habits led her down a path that ultimately left her empty, desperately seeking to know the purpose of her life, and even contemplating suicide. Haley’s experience is an excellent illustration of how we human beings so often settle on something — popularity, career…
BIG NEWS! Site of Joseph’s Egyptian Storehouses Confirmed
(SIX MINUTE VIDEO) — Joseph is one of the most amazing characters in the Old Testament, being sold into slavery in Egypt by jealous brothers, then thrown into jail on false charges. But things turned around when he interpreted Pharaoh’s dream. That dream warned that Egypt was about to experience seven years of great prosperity,…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Are Christians Obligated to Support Israel?
(5:53 VIEWING) — So you’re in a conversation with a colleague at lunch in the Dirksen or Longworth Cafeteria and he or she declares that “there is no connection between the Israel of the Old Testament and the State of Israel we know about today.” How do you respond, knowing that ever since the October…
HAPPY NEW YEAR! And Here’s a New Year Resolution That You’ve Probably Never Before Even Considered
By Mark Tapscott (10 MINUTE READ) — Welcome to 2025. Now that last night’s midnight revelry is past and you’re up and rarin’ to get after the great challenges and opportunities that may come your way in the next 12 months, allow me to give you something to think about that I am all but…