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.
MYTH BUSTERS: No, Jesus Was NOT A Vegetarian
There are actually some folks who claim, contrary to abundant evidence, that Jesus Christ never ate meat. Kyle Butt of the Apologetics Press explains in the following 4:21 video that it’s not just the fact both the Old Testament and New Testament prescribe and approve of meat consumption, there is also a logical fallacy involved…
TESTIMONIES: Abused as a Child, He Grew Up Sex and Booze Addicted. And Then Came Jesus
Jon Nicholas is a man with whom I can deeply relate because our stories have a great deal in common despite the fact we grew up in two dramatically different worlds. His was in the ghetto, one of five children being raised by a single mom. He was abused. Mine was in middle America, a…
DID YOU KNOW? Darwin Considered Women Inferior to Men
If the headline above shocks you, you are about to be shocked even more if you watch the following 3:23 video from Kyle Butt and the Apologetics Press. He provides the specific cites from Charles Darwin’s “The Descent of Man” and then explains in detail why, given Darwin’s assumptions about the origin of man, his…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Should Christians Attend Same-Sex Marriage Ceremonies?
When the Supreme Court cleared the way for the legalization of same-sex marriage in all 50 states, the Justices made it inevitable that millions of Americans who are Christians would sooner or later be faced with a really tough decision. Can I as a Bible-believing, Jesus-loving Christian attend a same-sex marriage, be it of a…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: GOP Aides Far More Open to Populism Than Dems
Slightly more than half, 52 percent, of the congressional aides expressed disapproval in responding to CNCT’s recent survey of opinion on how populism is perceived among Hill staffers. But dig a little deeper into the results and some interesting contrasts are seen. Among GOP staffers, for example, approval of populism reached 65 percent, compared to…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: YAEL SHEINFELD has set up shop as Press Secretary to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) after previously serving a stint as Interim Communications Director for the Democratic Party of Illinois. Yael is a 2021 BA graduate in Communications Studies from Northeastern University. ANNA BROOKS REED makes the jump from serving as Press Assistant…
GOOD QUESTION: What Accounts for the Transformation of These Four Men?
What accounts for the transformation of these four men from cowards, skeptics and deadly adversaries into the acknowledged and respected leaders of the early Christian movement? That something was seeing and talking with the resurrected Jesus Christ. Even most critical scholars agree that something occurred that completely changed Peter, James, the half-brother of Jesus, Thomas,…
EXPLAIN THIS: Do You Really Know How Massive The Evidence Is For The Literal Resurrection of Jesus Christ?
Former reporter and editor Lee Strobel is the author of *”The Case for Christ” and multiple successor volumes that describe his exhaustive assessment of the historical, archeological, literary, medical, scientific and logical evidence for Christianity. The most important part of Strobel’s investigation focused on the evidence for the literal resurrection of Jesus Christ. Such emphasis…
TESTIMONIES: Atheist Doctor Challenged Resurrection, Found New Life in Jesus
Ambition is almost the key currency of the realm when it comes to politics and nowhere is this more so the case than in Congress and on Capitol Hill where there are thousands of super smart and super ambitious men and women working hard every day to advance up the next rung on the ladder…