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.
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…
How HillFaith Fulfills Its Purposes
Content that appears on the HillFaith web site is intended to illustrate how the saving, personal relationship with Jesus Christ transforms hearts, minds, cultures and nations, to answer objections of critics of Christianity, and to document the crucial role of the Christian faith in America’s founding generation. In addition to the web site, HillFaith offers…
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
HillFaith will return in the New Year and in the meantime we wish all of you the Merriest of Christmases. The gifts and decorations and office parties are nice, but remember, and your life will be blessed if you do, Jesus is the Reason for the Season: “And the angel said to them, “Fear not,…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Big Majorities of Congressional Aides Think Their Work Environment is Great
Large majorities of congressional aides responding to the latest survey by the House Office of Congressional Workplace Rights (OCWR) view their office environments as favorable. Based on five factors, 76 percent or three-quarters of the 1,515 respondents view the congressional work environment as “favorable,” while only 13 percent describe the environment as “unfavorable.” On the…
CONTRADICTIONS: Here’s the 5 Most Commonly Cited and Why They Aren’t Contradictions
(SEVEN MINUTE READ/WATCH) — How many times have you heard somebody talking about the Bible, claiming it isn’t credible and dismissing it as “full of contradictions?” Maybe you, even as you read this post, are thinking to yourself, “well, yes, it is full of contradictions.” Right? Wrong. Hundreds of books have been written over the…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Washington on Americans’ Debt of Gratitude to God for Our Independence
“No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts in the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step, by which they have been advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.” – George…
TESTIMONIES: Allison Byxbe’s Four Bible Verses to Help With Depression
We all have those hours, days, sometimes weeks or more, when depression hits, making every task seem overwhelming, drying up our reserves of optimism and hope, and sparking doubts about pretty much everything. Such times can be especially challenging for those who know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Surprised by that claim? Don’t…
MIRACLES BY DESIGN: Check Out This Mama Bird and Her Umbrella
(FOUR-MINUTE READ) — Most bird mamas use their wings to cover their chicks for a variety of reasons, including keeping the little ones warm, protecting them from predators and ensuring they get the rest their rapidly developing bodies require for proper growth. It’s also not uncommon for mama birds to use their wings to shield…