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.
CONSIDER THIS: What If Racism Isn’t Our Biggest Problem, It’s Actually Otherism?
Few topics get more attention these days than racism. Advocates of Critical Race Theory (CRT) insist that racism is embedded in our political, social and economic structures, and they also claim racism is inherently a function of the color of an individual’s skin. But what if the problem actually goes deeper than the mere color…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who Is Moving Up On The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: DANNY JATIVA is hustling over to be Communications Adviser to Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), after filling the dual roles of Communications Director/Foreign Policy Adviser to Rep. Carlos Antonio Gimenez (R-FL). Danny’s MA in Global Governance, Politics and Security is from American University. ANGELIKA PELLEGRINO is the new Deputy Communications Director for Sen….
EXPLAIN THIS: How Did Bees Learn To Talk By Dancing?
You may never have wondered how the honey bee tells the other honey bees in the nest where to find the latest supply of food, but you should have because therein lies another fascinating that points to the necessity of a creator. As Kyle Butt of the Apologetics Press explains in the following short video,…
THINK ABOUT THIS: How ‘Hilbert’s Hotel’ Helps Explain God And Infinity
If you’ve ever watched a football game, you may have witnessed your favorite team moving the ball to the opponent’s one-yard line late in the fourth quarter of a tie game. Everybody in the grandstands is on their feet screaming their heads off, either for the winner or to “hold’em!” But when your team goes…
LONG STORY SHORT (Episode 5): Can You Solve The Water Paradox?
Linking polymers — the required building blocks for all living things — is an essential step in the creation of life. Without such linking, there is no building of the DNA and RNA strands that are crucial for the process. How important are polymers? Here’s how the smart guys at the Discovery Institute, who produced…
A Little Down Over The Election? Here’s Some Great Counsel
James Hurley is one of the earliest supporters of HillFaith and his regular intercessory prayer alerts are a regular and much-appreciated feature in my email’s inbox. His latest alert hit home with me this morning and so I am sharing it with HillFaith readers weary from the constant drumbeat of election news: Greetings to All:…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Once A Woman, Always A Woman?
If a Supreme Court Justice is unable to provide a definition of a “woman,” should we conclude that person is alarmingly deficient of common sense, purposely being evasive or merely attempting a subtle bit of mockery? Actually, then-Supreme Court Justice nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson was defended by more than a few people in the media,…
Nine Archeological Discoveries That Confirm The Bible’s Historical Accuracy
More copies of the Bible have been bought than any other book in the entire recorded history of the Earth, making it the most influential book ever published. But the Bible has in recent years also been derided by skeptics as little more than a collection of fables, myths, legends and yarns. For example, for…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Here’s The Number That Explains Why Evolution Can’t Add Up
Let’s think about computer programming. Behind every computer application is a coding that determines how your laptop will perform a particular operation, be that refighting World War II in “Call of Duty” or using Turbo Tax to prepare your return. Programming is essentially arrangements of sequences for the 1s and 0s that result in desired…
WORKING ON THE HILL: Big Progress on Staff Salaries in 2022
A new analysis by the House Chief Administrative Officer finds significant advances in staff salaries on a position-by-position basis, with an overall average increase of 23 percent increase from 2021 to 2022, measured as of September. A total of 6,000 House staff positions were measured for 2022, compared to a slightly higher total in 2021,…