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.
CONSIDER THIS: Was the Star That Led the Magi to Baby Jesus a ‘Great Comet?’
People have been researching, arguing and speculating about what the three wise men — aka “the Magi” — saw that they thought was a star leading them to a particular location where they would find a newborn king. Eric Hedin, who earned a doctorate in experimental plasma physics from the University of Washington and did…
If You’re Struggling Through A Stressful Christmas, Please Read This
Paula Bolyard is PJ Media’s editor and a gifted writer who is blessed with a powerfully candid self-awareness and a courageous heart for sharing her faith. In the following column she wrote several years ago in the midst of an especially difficult Christmas season, Paula shares her heart about the real struggles we all face…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Christmas Is A Pagan Holiday, So Christians Should Not Celebrate It! Really?
It’s not heard much these days, but there are still folks among us who describe themselves as followers of Jesus Christ but who contend that Christians should not celebrate Christmas because it is essentially a pagan festival. The Puritans of the Cromwell period in England are perhaps best known for this attitude. It’s true a…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: HAYLEY FERNANDES makes the big move from the California State Capital to Congress, taking over as Agriculture Legislative Assistant to Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.). Back in Sacramento, Hayley previously served as a Fellow on the California Senate Rules Committee. Hayley received her BS in Dairy Science from California Polytechnic State University in…
CONTRADICTIONS: No, Matthew and Luke Accounts of an Angel Visiting Joseph and Mary Do Not Conflict
It’s the Christmas season when Christians around the world celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the Messiah. That also means you may well hear or read biblical skeptics who claim the Gospels of Matthew and Luke contradict each other in their account(s) of Joseph and Mary being visited by an Angel concerning Jesus. In the…
FOUNDATIONS: The Proper Role of Government in Education
The following article is from the editors of The Stream and was originally published as an installment in a series known as “Foundations,” which examines the most important fundamental issues facing America from a traditional Christian perspective. It is reprinted here on HillFaith by permission. Government is involved in higher education in many ways, from running…
‘Come and See’ HillFaith!
There is a passage in the Gospel of John that should be of interest to any reader who works on Capitol Hill in any capacity and who is thinking about, has previously considered or might in the future look at checking out HillFaith. The passage is John 1:43-46 and it’s where Jesus is in the…