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.
THINK ABOUT THIS: Actor Anthony Hopkins on the Greatest Man Ever
UPDATE: Readers are advised to see the comment below by Josiah making a strong case that this video is in fact a fake. As the editor of HillFaith, I apologize to readers for my failure to document the legitimacy of the video. I am leaving it posted on the site with this warning so that…
CONTRADICTIONS? Does God Really Know Everything?
Among the most familiar and important claims of the Bible is that God is sovereign, omniscient, omni-competent and omni-present. He knows everything all the time, including the number of hairs on the head of every person ever born. Not only that, He knows what I did on the 87th day of my 21st year on…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: de Tocqueville on the Source of America’s Greatness
(ONE-MINUTE READ) — Alexis de Tocqueville was a French political philosopher of the early 19th century who came to America, observed our society, and then penned the classic work of sociology and political analysis, Democracy in America. For many decades, de Tocqueville was among the most frequently quoted analysts of what makes the American experiment…
TESTIMONIES: Grace Munro Learned to Walk Her Faith in Jesus at Ole Miss
(FOUR-MINUTE READ AND WATCH) — Going to college and living the party life is great fun for a time, but, as Grace Munro found during her years at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, there also comes an emptiness because sooner or later you are asking yourself “if that all there is?” Where genuine happiness…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Can You Guess How Aides View Biden Pardon?
When President Joe Biden granted his son Hunter a wide-ranging pardon, reactions tended to fall into either of two camps, with the first being the Chief Executive was acting as any loving father would and the second summarized with the question “what did you expect?” Think congressional staffers are different? The responses when CNCT Capitol…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) — NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: BRIAN WEMPLE makes the move up from Professional Staff Member to Counsel for the House Financial Services Committee Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy Subcommittee, working for Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.). Brian earned his law degree this year from the Catholic University of America Law School, his M.A….
Jesus’ Nativity Scene is Coming to Capitol Hill Tomorrow
Tomorrow, Thursday, December 5 will see something quite unusual happening on Capitol Hill. If you’ve been working on the Hill for a long time, you may have seen it before, but if not, it may come as a bit of pleasant surprise when you do see it. Beginning at 11:00 am at the Faith &…
CONTRADICTIONS: One or Two Angels at Jesus’ Empty Tomb?
(EIGHT-MINUTE READ AND WATCH) — Put the Gospel accounts of the women discovering the empty tomb of Jesus on the Sunday following His death by crucifixion and burial in the tomb provided by Joseph of Arimathea side-by-side and it can appear that there are all kinds of contradictory details provided by Matthew, Mark, Luke and…
THE FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: George Washington Tells His Men To Seek Heaven’s Blessing To Be Free
(ONE-MINUTE READ) — “The honor and safety of our bleeding Country, and every other motive that can influence the brave and heroic Patriot, call loudly upon us, to acquit ourselves with Spirit. In short, we must now determine to be enslaved or free. If we make Freedom our choice, we must obtain it, by the…
CONSIDER THIS: Why ‘Nothing’ Is The Most VIP Word in the Origins Debate
(ONE-MINUTE WATCH) Atheists and other non-theists claim the universe either exploded from nothing into something at some unknown point in the far distant past or it simply has always been around and always will be around. Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher, defined “Nothing” as “what rocks think about.” Comedian Pete Holmes has something to say about…