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: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: LACY NELSON is the new Press Secretary for Maine Independent Sen. Angus King. Lacy previously worked as the Communications Director for the Institute of Politics and Public Service at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. Before that, Lacy worked in media-related positions for Democrats on both sides of the Hill. She…
MYTH-BUSTERS: TikTok Muslim Claims to Have Found THE Biggest Bible Contradiction
Erik Manning of Is Jesus Alive? responds to a Muslim advocate on Tik Tok who claimed to have found the biggest of all Bible contradictions because the four Gospels allegedly give differing accounts of Jesus’ last words on the cross. Essentially, Manning’s response is that differing details do not automatically equate to contradictory details. In…
FOUNDATIONS: How Christians Should View Paying Taxes
No one likes taxes, but the Bible is very clear on this matter. In Matthew 22:21, Jesus said, “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.” This was in response to the Pharisees asking Jesus whether it was against Jewish law to pay taxes. Similarly, in…
TESTIMONIES: How the Scion of a Prominent British Family Found Jeshua
Nick Howard’s father is Lord Michael Howard of Lympne and thus a member of one of Great Britain’s most prominent and influential Jewish families, several members of whom died in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Lord Howard served under Margaret Thatcher and later was leader of the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom…
CONSIDER THIS: Three Big Reasons You Can Trust What The Bible Says
J. Warner Wallace appeared for years on NBC’s “Dateline” program to talk about how he solved cold murder cases that had gone unsolved for years. It takes a special kind of knowledge and thinking to sort fact from fiction on trails that went cold years ago. But Wallace was famous for being able to solve…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? What Is Truth? Definitions Matter
Among the most famous questions ever asked occurs in John 18:37-38 where Jesus is being cross-examined by Pilate. Jesus tells Pilate that “the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” Pilate responds, “what is truth?” We, of course,…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up Capitol Hill This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: QUINN SLAVEN checks in as the new Communications Director for Rep. Blaine Lutkeymeyer (R-Mo.). Working with the media on behalf of the Missouri Republican is Quinn’s first position on a congressional staff. Previously, Quinn worked as an Account Manager for the Larson Shannahan Slifka Group LLC. He earned his BS in Political…
FOUNDATIONS: Why Christians Support the Right to Life of Unborn Babies
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. His mother was unmarried, 40 years old, with no money to raise…