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.
HARD FACTS: So You Think Christianity Suppressed Science and Intellect, Especially in the Middle Ages?
We’ve all heard it. You know, the stuff about how during the Middle Ages the church suppressed science and encouraged myths and fables. And who can forget those yarns about how the church made everybody think the Earth is flat as a pancake and the center of the universe? LOL! Well, there is another side…
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is Symbolized in Every Spring Bloom
If you are like me, Spring is the most exciting and energizing of the four seasons because it is all about new life, new color and new possibilities for the days ahead. The lonely cold of winter is behind and the sun’s rays have an enveloping warmth about them. There is nothing coincidental in the…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: MEREDITH BOOKER has signed on as Policy Adviser to Sen. Jeff Merkley, having previously served as a Legislative Aide and before that as a Legislative Correspondent for the Oregon Democrat. Meredith is a 2022 graduate of the Loyola University of New Orleans School of Law and a 2016 graduate of Oregon State…
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT: What If Jesus Really Is The Only Way To Heaven?
Why is it that when you mention the name of Jesus these days, some people get upset, hostile, maybe even visibly angry? But that’s nothing compared to their reaction when you point out to them that, in addition to claiming at John 8:56-59 to be one with the Father, Jesus also describes Himself as the…
STAFF NEWS: Senate Committees Get Big Budget Boosts, Hiring Now
If you are thinking of moving to a new position, now might well be a good time to start making some calls to friends or contacts with links to any of the 18 standing and select Senate committees. Under a newly approved Senate resolution, the total allocation for staff and oversight by the committees (except…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: MADISON DIBBLE moves over to the staff of Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) as Speechwriter, following a stint with Berman & Co. as a Researcher and before that as a Breaking News Reporter for the Washington Examiner. Madison is a 2018 graduate of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. DANIELLE COTTER is the…
THIS IS HUGE! Your Muscles Have Their Very Own Microscopic Power Grid
It’s not every day that the National Institutes for Health (NIH) research produces evidence of something potentially of landmark scientific and philosophic importance, but David Coppedge at Evolution News & Science Today has the report: “A finding announced in Nature represents a blockbuster for intelligent design. We knew about ATP synthase — that rotary engine that uses…
Think the World Wide Web is Amazing? Check-out the ‘Wood Wide Web’
Once it was derisively called “Al Gore’s Amazing Information Superhighway.” Today, we know it as the World Wide Web. And it really is an amazing creation, making it possible for virtually every human being on the face of the Earth to exchange information with every other human being here. As incredible as the WWW is,…
EASTER MYTHS & MISCHIEF: Which Jesus Do You Think Is Real?
Easter Sunday, April 9, is two weeks away. Lots of people that day will sit in church pews they won’t see again until Christmas. Tons of the men and women they share those pews with will be there because they believe Jesus was resurrected from the grave three days after the crucifixion. Millions more folks…