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.
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) — NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: BRIAN WEMPLE makes the move up from Professional Staff Member to Counsel for the House Financial Services Committee Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy Subcommittee, working for Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.). Brian earned his law degree this year from the Catholic University of America Law School, his M.A….
Jesus’ Nativity Scene is Coming to Capitol Hill Tomorrow
Tomorrow, Thursday, December 5 will see something quite unusual happening on Capitol Hill. If you’ve been working on the Hill for a long time, you may have seen it before, but if not, it may come as a bit of pleasant surprise when you do see it. Beginning at 11:00 am at the Faith &…
CONTRADICTIONS: One or Two Angels at Jesus’ Empty Tomb?
(EIGHT-MINUTE READ AND WATCH) — Put the Gospel accounts of the women discovering the empty tomb of Jesus on the Sunday following His death by crucifixion and burial in the tomb provided by Joseph of Arimathea side-by-side and it can appear that there are all kinds of contradictory details provided by Matthew, Mark, Luke and…
THE FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: George Washington Tells His Men To Seek Heaven’s Blessing To Be Free
(ONE-MINUTE READ) — “The honor and safety of our bleeding Country, and every other motive that can influence the brave and heroic Patriot, call loudly upon us, to acquit ourselves with Spirit. In short, we must now determine to be enslaved or free. If we make Freedom our choice, we must obtain it, by the…
CONSIDER THIS: Why ‘Nothing’ Is The Most VIP Word in the Origins Debate
(ONE-MINUTE WATCH) Atheists and other non-theists claim the universe either exploded from nothing into something at some unknown point in the far distant past or it simply has always been around and always will be around. Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher, defined “Nothing” as “what rocks think about.” Comedian Pete Holmes has something to say about…
TESTIMONIES: Keith Fagan Found the True Relationship With Jesus Christ
(FIVE-MINUTE READ AND WATCH) — Keith Fagan played baseball in college, then graduated and became a high school coach in Mississippi. He was married to a wonderful wife, a successful coach on track for a great career and seemingly secure in living the American Dream. But, as we see so often when, as Matthew West…
CONSIDER THIS: These Scientists See Intelligent Design in Nature
(THREE MINUTE WATCH) — Think about it, if the order and structure of the universe are evidence of an Intelligent Designer, doesn’t it make sense for you to know as much as possible about that designer? Watch the following 2:51 second video as a bunch of scientists from a variety of disciplines explain why they…
What I am Thankful For on Thanksgiving 2024
(FIVE-MINUTE READ) — What I am thankful for today, Thanksgiving 2024: 1. That on March 1, 1991, at 9:15 am the Lord opened my eyes to the wreckage I’d made of my life and those of others, and to my need for Him as my Lord and Savior. I literally cried out “Please Help Me,…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is Jesus God?
(FIVE MINUTE READ/WATCH) — The question posed in the headline above just might be the single most important question you will ever be asked because where you spend your eternity depends on how you respond to it. But, as the following 4:45 “What Would You Say” video explains, the answer may not be as complicated,…