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.
TESTIMONIES: Richard Dawkins Was Too Busy to Answer a Logical Question
For Peter Byrom in 2009, getting an opportunity to hear a panel of distinguished philosophers and public thinkers that included renowned atheist Richard Dawkins would prove to be a turning point in his journey from rejection of God to the transforming faith that comes with knowing Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Peter asked Dawkins…
Is God Really So Insecure and Jealous?
Ask one of the “New” Atheists like Richard Dawkins, Penn Gillette or Dan Barker about the Christian God and jealousy and you will get a recitation that leaves no room for doubt – they think Jehovah is a total and complete narcissist. Or something quite worse. Take Dawkins, for example: “The god of the Old…
HEY, YOU CAN’T DO THAT! 7 Things That Are Mission Impossible for Moral Relativists
So, you think all that stuff about absolute truth is a bunch of hokum, or maybe you view it as just a bunch of nice fairy tales made up by fearful people to explain what they didn’t understand. Or perhaps you are of the view that nothing is always true, everywhere and all the time,…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Should Christians Vote?
You may find this hard to believe but there are those in America who contend that Christians should keep their religious faith and the moral values that follow therefrom as far away from the public square as possible. (The same sort of folks also often proclaim with great intensity that it is absolutely appropriate their…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Most Aides in Both Parties Prefer Different Presidential Candidate
More than three-quarters, 77 percent, of all congressional aides from both political parties who responded to the latest CNCT Capitol Pulse survey said they would name a new presidential candidate if they got the opportunity. Among Democratic staffers, 88 percent said they would name somebody other than President Joe Biden, while 70 percent of the…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: MIKE FRANC is moving into the Policy Director job on the House Budget Committee, working for Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas). A long-time Hill veteran, Mike comes to the budget panel from the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity where he was Chief Research Director. Mike also served as Vice-President for Congressional Relations…
SUNDAY SONGS: ‘Precious Angel’ (and more) from the ‘Slow Train Coming’ Album by Bob Dylan
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BOB DYLAN?
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? The Church is Full of Hypocrites
Odds are you have heard this aphorism from somebody in your family, friends or colleagues at work when you’ve invited them to visit your church. Or, if you aren’t a church-goer, you’ve probably said it yourself – ‘I don’t go to church because it’s full of hypocrites.’ That’s always struck me as like saying “I…