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.
TESTIMONIES: Meet Anais
Among the saddest and most destructive trends in American society in recent decades has been the increased divorce rate that has resulted in generation after generation of young people coming from broken homes. Many more, like myself, grew up in homes that they wish they could escape. Without a stable home life anchored by a…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Cohabitation Is a Smart Way For Couples to Go
It used to be referred to as “shacking up,” but the contemporary term for an unmarried man and woman who share the same living quarters is “cohabiting.” The conventional wisdom these days is that smart couples live together before marriage to find out if they are “compatible.” Cohabitation has become widespread in America in recent…
Did You Hear of The 25-Year Bet Between the Philosopher and the Neuroscientist?
It’s true, two-and-a-half decades ago, neuroscientist Christof Koch bet philosopher David Chalmers that scientists by this year would have solved one of the deepest mysteries about the human body — how the brain’s neurons produce what we know as consciousness. It’s a crucial issue in both men’s disciplines because it is a fulcrum of the…
CONSIDER THIS: How The Ballet of Down-Shifting a Race Car Points to God
Let me tell you at the outset, dear reader, that this post is about driving a race car at high speed on a race track and what that can teach us about God. Yes, this is likely the first time you’ve ever read anything that brings those two topics together in one article. Trust me,…
Everything The Mainstream Media Won’t Tell You About ‘The Sound of Freedom’
Jim Caviezel, who portrays Department of Homeland Security Special Agent Tim Ballard in ‘The Sound of Freedom‘ movie released over the July 4 weekend, explains his decision to take the controversial part as motivated in great part by his belief that somebody needs to stand up now about problems like the world-wide sex-trafficking of little…
CONSIDER THIS: Look What Your Daddy’s Sperm Went Through To Help You Become The World’s Only YOU
If you’ve ever read Homer’s duo, “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey,” Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath,” or Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” you know something about how deeply meaningful and complex literary journeys can be. But the complexity of challenges overcome in the journey taken by the single sperm from…
The Most Important Decision You Will Ever Make
If you work on Capitol Hill for a senator or a representative, or for a congressional committee or one of the congressional agencies, you are likely to face having to make significant decisions in your work, decisions that can sometimes alter the course of your career, your life, perhaps even our country. Working on Capitol…
FOR FUTURE REFERENCE: Heading to the Beach for the Week(end)? You Should Know About the Beach Fellowship
People who work on the Hill often know all about the beaches on the Eastern Shore, including Ocean City in Maryland, and Bethany Beach and Rehoboth in Delaware. It’s easy to just sleep right past church on a beach Sunday morning, especially after a Saturday night on the boardwalk or at Funland or whatever. But…