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.
OLYMPICS 2024: ‘God Made Me Fast And When I Run, I Feel His Pleasure.’ Do You?
EDITOR’S NOTE: Today is the first day of the 2024 Paris Olympics, a century after the great Scots runner, Eric Liddell, gave the world a stirring display of courage and faith in action on the athletic field and behind the scenes as well. Longtime HillFaith readers know that Liddell is immensely admired and honored on…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: BRITTANY PSYHOGIOS-SMITH moves into the Scheduling Director position working for Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.). Before joining the Speaker’s staff, Brittany was Deputy Chief of Staff for Rep. Brad Finstad (R-MN). Brittany is a 2011 graduate of Bethel University with a BA in Business and Political Science. In another Minnesota…
CONTRADICTIONS: The 16 Most Common Exegetical Errors Made by Bible Skeptics
Claims that selected passages in the Bible contradict each other are quite possibly the most frequently heard objection from skeptics that Christians hear when they seek to share their faith in Jesus Christ in the public square. Such claims are also routinely cited as established fact in the mainstream media, in college classrooms, the entertainment…
MYTH-BUSTERS: Check Out This Four-Point Test to See if Miracle Claims Are True
Christians believe Jesus Christ was crucified dead on the cross, He was buried in a tomb hewn out of a big rock, and He rose alive again three days later. The Resurrection is the greatest of a whole series of miracles Jesus performed during His three-year ministry in Galilee and Judea. Other religions also claim…
TESTIMONIES: What Jesus Told This Marine Brought Him To Tears
But what Jesus told Marine Drill Instructor and Infantry leader Rick Jimenez also opened his eyes to the truth about himself, his calling in this life and the all-encompassing love of God. Shortly before he was scheduled to ship over to Iraq for a year-long combat deployment, Rick and his wife were separated. He was…
EXPLAIN THIS: Darwin’s Racism of the Gaps
By Jonathan Witt In the wake of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859), thought leaders in Europe and the United States used his theory of evolution by natural selection to justify violent and dehumanizing treatment of non-whites around the globe. This much is well known. Less widely recognized is that Darwin’s case for ape-to-man evolution…
THINK ABOUT THIS: ‘The Truth in True Crime: What Investigating Death Teaches Us About the Meaning of Life’ by J. Warner Wallace
Former Los Angeles Police Detective and NBC “Dateline” featured cold-case expert J. Warner Wallace is a national treasure for this country and a precious asset for the Christian church in America and worldwide. Why do I say that? Because I’ve read his latest book, “The Truth in True Crime,” as well as his previous major…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Does One Vote Matter?
If you work on Capitol Hill, you most likely know that President Joe Biden received 81 million votes to be elected to this nation’s highest office in 2020. But did you also know that those 81 million votes constituted only 34 percent of all eligible voters? And did you further know the total number of…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: PHIL POE makes the big step up from Professional Staff Member to Deputy Staff Director for the House Financial Services Committee’s National Security, Illicit Finance and International Financial Institutions Subcommittee. Phil is a 2020 graduate of the University of Maryland Baltimore County with a BA in Political Science and he earned an…