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.
HILL STAFF NEWS: InterFaith Staff Prayer Room Dedicated
Chaplain of the House, the Reverend Dr. Margaret Grun Kibben welcomed a steady stream of visitors Thursday to the newly opened InterFaith Staff Prayer Room located in 467 Cannon House Office Building. The Prayer Room is intended to provide a quiet place where congressional aides and interns can step back a few minutes from the…
HILL STAFF NEWS: More GOP Staffers Than Dems Taking Advantage of Training Opportunities
Staffers working for congressional Republican senators and representatives are taking advantage of multiple training opportunities made possible by groups like the conservative Heritage Foundation and the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI), according to Legistorm. “Privately financed travel data shows a stark difference between how Republican and Democratic staffers are trained to do their jobs effectively. While nearly…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: ZACK KRAFT is moving up! He’s going from Russell 127 where he was Deputy Press Secretary to Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wy.) to Russell 260 where he takes over as Press Secretary for Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa). Zack is a 2020 graduate of the University of South Carolina with a BS in Political…
CONSIDER THIS: Stored Information Requires Choice Requires Chooser
Does every human being alive today or who ever has or ever will be present on this Earth have within himself or herself information that provides logical evidence for the necessity for the existence of God? Think about this: Every person has a unique DNA genetic code that defines pretty much every thing about them,…
MIRACLES BY DESIGN: The Beauty and Complexity of Butterflies
To understand the transformative complexity of the metamorphosis process that is required to produce a butterfly is to see the necessity of an intelligent designer. The butterfly’s wings alone are miraculous, but there is so much more to this creature, as explained so vividly in the following 4:12 Illustra Media video:
TESTIMONIES: Richard Dawkins Was Too Busy to Answer a Logical Question
For Peter Byrom in 2009, getting an opportunity to hear a panel of distinguished philosophers and public thinkers that included renowned atheist Richard Dawkins would prove to be a turning point in his journey from rejection of God to the transforming faith that comes with knowing Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Peter asked Dawkins…
Is God Really So Insecure and Jealous?
Ask one of the “New” Atheists like Richard Dawkins, Penn Gillette or Dan Barker about the Christian God and jealousy and you will get a recitation that leaves no room for doubt – they think Jehovah is a total and complete narcissist. Or something quite worse. Take Dawkins, for example: “The god of the Old…
HEY, YOU CAN’T DO THAT! 7 Things That Are Mission Impossible for Moral Relativists
So, you think all that stuff about absolute truth is a bunch of hokum, or maybe you view it as just a bunch of nice fairy tales made up by fearful people to explain what they didn’t understand. Or perhaps you are of the view that nothing is always true, everywhere and all the time,…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Should Christians Vote?
You may find this hard to believe but there are those in America who contend that Christians should keep their religious faith and the moral values that follow therefrom as far away from the public square as possible. (The same sort of folks also often proclaim with great intensity that it is absolutely appropriate their…