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.
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT: Women Were The First Witnesses Of Jesus’ Resurrection
In each of the four Gospels, women are the first people to encounter the empty tomb and the resurrected Jesus Christ. That may not seem like a significant fact, but in reality, it is a crucially important detail that points to the credibility of Christianity. Check out the following 1:09 video in which I discuss…
Some Tender Thoughts And Memories In Advance For Valentine’s Day
James Hurley’s Intercessory Prayer for today includes some thoughtful observations specifically about next week’s immensely popular holiday and more generally about how Jesus Christ provided the greatest example ever of genuine love: “With the Christmas season and the New Year’s events in our rearview mirror, we find ourselves less than a week out from the…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Do You Believe In Miracles?
Miracles are part and parcel of ancient myths, fabulous stories that have no real grounding in the established truths of modern science and thus are of no importance other than as the grist for entertaining fantasy, right? Well, consider the following facts: In August 2000, I underwent an emergency double bypass surgery. The main artery…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up On The Hill This Week!
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: GRACE DUNLAP moves into the Legislative Counsel slot for Rep. Jake Ellzey (R-Texas). Grace comes to the Ellzey digs after interning for another Texan, Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas). Grace is a graduate of the University of Houston Law Center for her JD in 2022 and Texas A&M for her BS in Agricultural…
THE CHOSEN: An Interview With Peter’s Wife, Eden (As Portrayed by Lara Silva)
If you have been following the record-breaking series, “The Chosen,” about the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you have likely seen the wonderfully spunky, patient, no-nonsense portrayal by Lara Silva of Eden, the wife of the Peter the Apostle. Peter is headstrong, somewhat given to impulsiveness and over-confidence, so I relate to him…
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT: Do You Know What a Kustodia Is?
Probably not because it’s highly doubtful that any schools these days include study of the military discipline of the Roman Legion. There is a fascinating book about this topic, written years ago by George Currie and entitled “The Military Discipline of the Romans.” A guard unit of the Roman Legion was known as a Kustodia…
Intelligent Design and the Martin Luther King Jr. You Never Knew
Martin Luther King Jr. is known around the world as among the greatest civil rights leaders in history, but here’s something most people working on Capitol Hill do not know about him: MLK was an advocate of Intelligent Design (ID). Contrary to the way in which it is typically portrayed in the Mainstream Media, ID…
CONSIDER THIS: Are These The Seven Best Evidences for Jesus’ Literal Resurrection?
There is no doubt that the single most important claim of Christianity — whether you are a follower, a skeptic or apathetic about it all — is that Jesus Christ was resurrected from the dead three days after His death on the cross, thereby providing convincing proof of His claim to be God-made-flesh. According to…
How to Handle the Bore Somebody Sat You With at an Event
So you find yourself on an airplane or at a dinner that has pre-arranged seating and you are unlucky enough to be seated beside somebody who thinks exactly the opposite of the way you do on every conceivable issue. Not only that and to make matters even worse, this individual is highly opinionated, loud and…
CONSIDER THIS: Where Is God? Maybe Closer Than You Think
Asking “where is God” likely seems for many men and women working on Capitol Hill as, at best, an irrelevant question or, at worst, evidence of the questioner being trapped in the ignorance and superstitions of the past. Such is almost the conventional wisdom for many walking the halls of Longworth, Russell and other congressional…