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.
Why Easter is All About the Single Most Important Fact in History
How would you respond were you asked: what is the single most important fact in all of human history? Rome fell? Roland died so Charlemagne could defeat the Saracens? The printing press? The U.S. Constitution? America beat the Nazis to the atomic bomb? Those and many more facts have each arguably changed the course of…
HE IS RISEN! How Nature Shows the Resurrection, Again and Again
Spring is my favorite season, as it is for millions of others. For me, the return of the Azaleas to blooming, the lush green of the yards and the new warmth in the air signal that the cold is gone of winter is over and new possibilities are everywhere. Spring also reminds me of what…
CONSIDER THIS: Four Proofs for the Resurrection of Jesus
Today is Good Friday, the day 2,000 years ago that Jesus Christ was tried and convicted in a kangaroo court in Jerusalem, tortured by Roman soldiers, then nailed to a cross by them and left to die. But on Sunday, the tomb in which Jesus had been buried was empty and that’s when the most…
*Not So Meek and Mild
He shocked the mannered when He raised cups with townies and let a long-haired lady weep across His feet. He angered the rich when He said camels could pass through needles easier than they into Heaven. He cracked a whip and cash registers flew. He crashed the market when eighty pork bellies dove over a…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: BROOKE MEADOWCROFT moves into her first full-time congressional position, as Staff Assistant for Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.). Previously, Brooke interned in the office of Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.). Brooke received her BA in Political Science and French Studies in 2023 from the University of Delaware. ADAM YOST is the new National Security…
This Timeline Forever Changed The Easter Resurrection Debate
Easter is right around the corner, so there will be more than the usual attention paid in the media and elsewhere to the debate about whether Jesus actually was literally resurrected from the dead three days after being crucified, or was it merely something imagined — or manufactured — by His disciples. Professor Gary Habermas…
So You Think 98 Percent Of Our DNA Is Evolutionary ‘Junk’
Actually, no, it’s not. Here’s how we know this:
TESTIMONIES: An Atheist’s Intense Hatred of God Is Softened and Changed by Christian Love
Mike Arnold was a child when his family’s home caught fire. In the ensuing blaze, he survived by jumping out of a second-story window but his two brothers both died, one of smoke inhalation and the other of severe burns over 90 percent of his body. Mike became a devout, convinced and bitter atheist, filled…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Great Advice for Seeking a New Job on the Hill
There are more than 10,000 employees working for Congress on Capitol Hill and elsewhere as aides to individual senators, representatives and committees. For anybody interested in public service, politics and government, being “on the Hill” can be literally nirvana. So what if you are looking for your first job on the Hill, or you have been…
IRREDUCIBLE MIND: You Can’t See or Hold It but You Know You’ve Got One
Much of the conventional wisdom in the scientific and academic spaces holds that reality is made up solely of the natural or material universe. If it’s not natural or material, it doesn’t exist. That means, among much else, there is no such thing as the supernatural or non-material. But what about your mind, your consciousness? …