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: Here’s Three Big Reasons Christianity Enabled The Scientific Revolution
Take an introductory astronomy or physics class on a typical college or university campus these days and at some point there will be a great deal of attention paid to the Three Laws of Planetary Motion discovered by Johannes Kepler, one of the chief movers of the Scientific Revolution. What will almost certainly get little…
TESTIMONIES: Former Newsboys Lead Singer John James
There was a time not that long ago when the Newsboys were among the most famous Christian music bands in the world, with a string of six best-selling albums that brought members of the group great material wealth, status, and celebrity. John James, the lead singer for the Newsboys and one of the group’s co-founders,…
TESTIMONIES: Yes, It’s True, Alice Cooper is a Follower of Jesus
Technically, HillFaith is on vacation through the Labor Day weekend, but when I watched Pastor Greg Laurie’s interview with Alice Cooper — yes, that Alice Cooper of hard rock/heavy metal fame — I knew this one had to get posted today. Cooper epitomized the hard-core essence of hard-rock/heavy metal music in the late 1960s and…
What About All The World’s Other Religions?
J. Warner Wallace, the former Los Angeles Police Detective and long-time expert solver of long-cold murder cases on NBC’s “Dateline,” takes on the question of whether he investigated the world’s other religions before deciding to become a Christian. Great question, right! Wallace applied the detective skills he acquired as a detective to the evidence for…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Would You Date Somebody From That Other Party?
This may come as a shock to folks who think, if American politics in general is hyper-partisan, then congressional aides who are up to their eyeballs every hour in working for members of one party or the other must be even more so. Well, that may or may not be true but would you think…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: AUDREY TRUSSELL is the new Legislative Correspondent working for Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.). Audrey has been with the Oklahoma lawmaker since interning for him in 2023. She is a 2023 graduate of Villanova University with a BA in English Language and Literature/Letters. DIEGO CORDERO is the new Staff Assistant in the office…
MYTH-BUSTERS: What A Real Woman Looks, Thinks And Acts Like
Taylor Alesia has seen the heights of being a social media influencer, but she didn’t find genuine fulfillment or happiness in having millions of followers on the Internet. Her fame led her down the wrong paths and she didn’t stop until she hit bottom. That’s when Alesia’s life providentially turned around. She got real about…
CONSIDER THIS: So You Think These Guys Could Actually Pull It Off?
The “These Guys” in the headline above are the original 11 disciples of Jesus Christ during His three-year ministry here on Earth, and the “It” is overcoming a highly disciplined guard unit of the Roman Legion, stealing His dead body and hiding it, then claiming He had been resurrected from the dead. That would be…