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.
HillFaith’s ‘Office Hours’ Are Back! A Listening Ear And Maybe Some Useful Advice
Working on the Hill is not easy. The new challenges are big and small, continuous, and sometimes incredibly frustrating. That is why it sometimes helps to have somebody to turn to for advice who has been around the Hill Merry-Go-Round a few times, somebody who knows how to listen and who can offer sound advice….
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ Up On The Hill This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: AUSTIN CROMACK moves into the Special Counsel slot for the House Judiciary Committee, working for the Chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). Previously, Austin was Deputy Counsel at the Republican National Lawyers Association. His BA degree was awarded in 2015 in Political Science, Religion and Religious Studies from Arizona State University, while his…
RIGHT OR WRONG: What Does It Profit A Man To Gain The Whole World But …
There is a wonderful scene near the end of the trial of Sir Thomas More in the movie classic “A Man For All Seasons” that serves admirably to illustrate the contemporary application of Jesus’ well-known maxim: “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul?” In the movie, More…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Can Darwinian Evolution Explain Both Man’s Origins And Our Morals?
Lord Alfred Tennyson, the 19th Century British poet, famously described nature as full of violence and death, “red in tooth and claw.” He thus captured in a most vivid image the idea that survival of the fittest is the basic law of nature. The image is also a fitting starting point for an introduction to…
YOUR DESIGNED BODY: Why Does Your Blood Clot at a Wound?
Everybody at one time or another has suffered a wound that bled. A paper-cut on a finger, a punch to the nose that draws a red flow, or a deep slice from a slipped knife that requires stitches. Been there, done that. But what if your body’s blood didn’t clot at the wound site? You…
CONSIDER THIS: Six Historical Facts That Demonstrate the Validity of Christianity
Dr. Gary Habermas, an historian and philosopher at Liberty University, has devoted his career to studying the evidence for the literal truth of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and the arguments presented by the most intelligent skeptics. In the following 6:22 video with “Capturing Christianity” host Cameron Bertuzzi, Habermas concisely describes six reasons for accepting…
LONG STORY SHORT (3): What’s the Real Deal on Antibiotic Resistance and Bacterial Evolution?
If you took a biology course anywhere in the past multiple decades, odds are good you heard some form of the argument that Darwinian Evolution can be seen happening right in front of our very eyes. It’s called Antibiotic Resistance — the process whereby bacteria develop over time the ability to be unfazed by those…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: JOE BALLARD is the new face in the office of Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND), moving into the Legislative Assistant position. Previously, Joe was Legislative Assistant/Operations Director for Rep. Myra Flores (R-Texas). Joe received his MA in Economics from the University of Alabama in 2020 and his BS in Finance and Economics from…
