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.
CONTRADICTIONS: How Two Statements That Seem Different Can Still Be Accurate
It is all but impossible to have a discussion about the Bible with a skeptic without them quickly throwing out the argument that the most widely read book in all of human history is “full of contradictions.” And to be honest, there are quite a few instances in Scripture where it’s not hard to come…
DID YOU KNOW: Vultures Are God’s Pathogenic Pandemic Preventers?
Vultures are quite possibly the ugliest of all the birds and seeing them doing what they are best known for — eating the meat and internal organs from dead animal carcasses — can instantly deaden the heartiest of appetites. Even so, as the John 10:10 Project illustrates so well in the following 9:25 video, the…
TESTIMONIES: ‘Every Jot and Tittle’ of the Bible Led Atheist Lesbian Syracuse Professor to Jesus
Former tenured Syracuse University Professor Rosaria Butterfield’s life journey has taken her from being a Lesbian activist and emphatic critic of Christianity to a happily married wife, mother and grandmother who is a devoted follower of Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior. She had earned her Ph.D. in English Literature, was granted tenure in…
HILL STAFF NEWS: InterFaith Staff Prayer Room Dedicated
Chaplain of the House, the Reverend Dr. Margaret Grun Kibben welcomed a steady stream of visitors Thursday to the newly opened InterFaith Staff Prayer Room located in 467 Cannon House Office Building. The Prayer Room is intended to provide a quiet place where congressional aides and interns can step back a few minutes from the…
HILL STAFF NEWS: More GOP Staffers Than Dems Taking Advantage of Training Opportunities
Staffers working for congressional Republican senators and representatives are taking advantage of multiple training opportunities made possible by groups like the conservative Heritage Foundation and the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI), according to Legistorm. “Privately financed travel data shows a stark difference between how Republican and Democratic staffers are trained to do their jobs effectively. While nearly…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: ZACK KRAFT is moving up! He’s going from Russell 127 where he was Deputy Press Secretary to Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wy.) to Russell 260 where he takes over as Press Secretary for Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa). Zack is a 2020 graduate of the University of South Carolina with a BS in Political…
CONSIDER THIS: Stored Information Requires Choice Requires Chooser
Does every human being alive today or who ever has or ever will be present on this Earth have within himself or herself information that provides logical evidence for the necessity for the existence of God? Think about this: Every person has a unique DNA genetic code that defines pretty much every thing about them,…
MIRACLES BY DESIGN: The Beauty and Complexity of Butterflies
To understand the transformative complexity of the metamorphosis process that is required to produce a butterfly is to see the necessity of an intelligent designer. The butterfly’s wings alone are miraculous, but there is so much more to this creature, as explained so vividly in the following 4:12 Illustra Media video: