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.
TESTIMONIES: Harvard Student Was an Atheist. Then She Read C.S. Lewis on Subjectivism
It’s not a word often heard these days but “subjectivism” — AKA “moral relativism” — is among the essential ingredients in the political culture of the day. The dictionary defines subjectivism as “the doctrine that all knowledge is limited to experiences by the self, and that transcendent knowledge is impossible.” Another way of putting it…
SUNDAY SONGS: ‘Don’t Stop Prayin” by Matthew West
Lyrics What’s your impossible? Your “I need a miracle” What’s got you barely hanging by a single thread? What looks so hopeless now? What weighs down your heart with doubt? You beg for a breakthrough, but no sign of breakthrough yet When you’ve cried, and you’ve cried ’til your tears run dry The answer won’t…
CONSIDER THIS: Last Words of Famous Atheists
Can you guess which famous atheist figure in the history of Western civilization said these words on his deathbed: “I have swallowed nothing but smoke. I have intoxicated myself with the incense that turned my head. I am abandoned by God and man.” Those have been claimed as the words of the 17th-18th Century French…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Most Dem Staffers Back Banning PAC Money; Support Grows Among GOPers, Too
The love of money is a root for all kinds of evil, according to the New Testament, and a big majority of Democratic staffers working on Capitol Hill back the idea of eliminating contributions to candidates by Political Action Committees (PAC), according to the latest CNCT Capitol Pulse. A total of 68 percent of all…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: AYAN DIXIT takes over as Legislative Correspondent on the office of Rep. Kevin Mullin (D-Calif.). Previously, Ayan was an Intern in the office of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). Ayan is a 2024 graduate of the George Washington University Elliot School of International Affairs. The new Press Assistant in the office…
MYTH BUSTERS: No, Jesus Was NOT A Vegetarian
There are actually some folks who claim, contrary to abundant evidence, that Jesus Christ never ate meat. Kyle Butt of the Apologetics Press explains in the following 4:21 video that it’s not just the fact both the Old Testament and New Testament prescribe and approve of meat consumption, there is also a logical fallacy involved…
TESTIMONIES: Abused as a Child, He Grew Up Sex and Booze Addicted. And Then Came Jesus
Jon Nicholas is a man with whom I can deeply relate because our stories have a great deal in common despite the fact we grew up in two dramatically different worlds. His was in the ghetto, one of five children being raised by a single mom. He was abused. Mine was in middle America, a…
DID YOU KNOW? Darwin Considered Women Inferior to Men
If the headline above shocks you, you are about to be shocked even more if you watch the following 3:23 video from Kyle Butt and the Apologetics Press. He provides the specific cites from Charles Darwin’s “The Descent of Man” and then explains in detail why, given Darwin’s assumptions about the origin of man, his…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Should Christians Attend Same-Sex Marriage Ceremonies?
When the Supreme Court cleared the way for the legalization of same-sex marriage in all 50 states, the Justices made it inevitable that millions of Americans who are Christians would sooner or later be faced with a really tough decision. Can I as a Bible-believing, Jesus-loving Christian attend a same-sex marriage, be it of a…