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.
STAFF NEWS: Job Openings on the Hill
Courtesy of CNCT, the app that connects Hill staffers: The Office of Rep. Andy Biggs is looking to hire a Scheduler. Interested candidates can send a resume to aaroncalkins@mail.house.gov. The Office of Rep. Mike Carey is looking to hire a Communications Director. Interested candidates can send a resume to blaine.kellyohio@gmail.com. The Tax Foundation is hiring an Editor for their Marketing team. Interested…
TESTIMONIES: Israeli Psychologist Meets Jesus (And That Changed Everything)
Dr. Erez Soref is President of One for Israel. He grew up in modern Israel and explains in the following video that he never heard anything about Jesus in his childhood, even though his family had relatives who lived on the Sea of Galilee who they visited regularly. Yet he never heard anything about Jesus,…
WORKING ON THE HILL: Have You Ever Been Pressured to Work on the Boss’ Re-Election Campaign?
With serious attention finally being paid now by congressional leaders in both parties to the working conditions of their staffers, lots of issues that have heretofore been in the background are beginning to percolate to the surface. One such issue is working on a Member’s re-election campaign staff in the months leading up to an…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: About Human Enhancement Versus Restoration?
Most HillFaith readers likely do not remember the “Six-Million Dollar Man” on television because that was before their time. But the show’s main character had been rebuilt after a test flight crash by government doctors who made him “better than he was before, better, stronger, faster.” That TV series was an early indicator of the…
PERSECUTION: Islamic Extremists ‘Hunting and Killing Us on a Daily Basis’
On Pentecost Sunday in Abuja, Nigeria, four gunmen stormed a Catholic Church during mass, massacring at least 50 worshippers in one of the most brutal rampages of the year. As word of the attack spread, so, too, did outrage that the violence in this African nation continues on. While Christians have been routinely targeted by Nigeria’s…
THINK ABOUT THIS: The Biology of the Baroque
Biology and the Baroque together? Yes, and this 20 minute video will give you a deep new appreciation for the miracle that is the incredible beauty and order in the natural world. And that in turn will raise some crucially important questions about whether the standard Darwinian explanation can by itself or in conjunction with…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Was the Resurrection of Jesus Faked?
It is a commonly heard argument from skeptics of Christianity who claim the Resurrection of Jesus never really happened because there was a conspiracy among the disciples to fake it. The disciples knew, the skeptics contend, that Jesus had predicted He would be resurrected from the grave three days after dying on the cross, but…
MY TESTIMONY: Let’s Get to the Truth About What Faith Is
Unless you’ve been asleep for the past several decades, you have heard it said many times, in many ways and in many places that faith, especially Christian faith, is based on blind acceptance, as opposed to secular, materialistic science, which is based on evidence and logic. Like so much else in the conventional wisdom of…
EXPLAIN THIS: The Miracle of Man
How to explain the origins of Man? There are but two possibilities: Either Man was created from nothing by God for an eternal purpose and destiny, or Man is nothing more than a constantly changing conglomeration of physical matter whose passing is of no consequence to anybody or anything. Which position you take on this…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: ALEX CARNES takes over as Clerk/Staff Director for the Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs. A Hill veteran who began in 2011 as an Intern working for then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Carnes comes to the appropriations panel after a stint…