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: From Religious Hypocrisy to Follower of Jesus Christ
If the truth were known, all of us walking around on this Earth have things we’ve done or thought about doing in our past that we would be ashamed for anybody else to know. This includes those among us who do lots of good works and think those good works will be enough when they…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: SOPHIE MACHALEC returns to the staff behind Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) to be Scheduler/Legislative Assistant. Previously, Sophie was an Account Manager with Advocacy Associates LLC and before that she was the South Carolinian’s Scheduler. Sophie expects to complete her MA in National Security Policy Studies at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School…
CONTRADICTIONS: How Can God Know Everything If He Didn’t Know Something?
There are multiple references in both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible that describe God as being all-knowing, or omniscient. He knows everything about everybody all the time and is never less than all-knowing. For example in the Old Testament, Psalm 44:21 tells us that God “knows the secrets of the heart,” and…
FOUNDATIONS: How Should Christians View Legal And Illegal Immigration?
The following article is from the editors of The Stream and was originally published as an installment in a series known as “Foundations,” which examines the most important fundamental issues facing America from a traditional Christian perspective. It is reprinted here on HillFaith by permission. We, as Christians, are to love our neighbor, care for those…
CONSIDER THIS: About Those Claims Christ and Christianity Are Rip-Offs Of Prior Pagan Religions
Christmas is coming, so odds are good we will be hearing critics of Christianity making claims that multiple pagan gods that pre-dated the alleged birth of Jesus Christ on December 25 were actually born on that same day. Dan Brown’s “DaVinci Code” is often the source for such claims. Based on such materials, the critics…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Does ‘Love Is Love’ Justify All Sexual Relationships?
Readers of a certain age will recall rock artist/drag queen Boy George saying “All love is good love.” Same-sex marriage advocates have long had their own version, saying “love is love.” Both sayings mean the same thing – when it comes to love, any two or more people should be free to do whatever pleases…
Why Is There A Camel Walking Around Capitol Hill? And Sheep? And A Donkey?
Photo courtesy of Faith & Liberty. Come December 7, you may find yourself asking that question as you walk from one of the House office buildings across Independence Avenue to the Capitol and spot a camel strolling along. It will be accompanied by sheep and a donkey, too. Oh, and there will be three really…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week (11/30)
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: ETHAN SORCHER moves into the Legislative Assistant slot working for Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) after serving a stint as Domestic Affairs Coordinator in Israel’s U.S. Embassy here in D.C. Ethan is a 2020 graduate of Boston University with a BA in International Relations and Affairs. AMY FRIENDMAN takes over as Chief of…
Eight Days Till The Live Nativity On Capitol Hill
Special to HillFaith Only eight days before the Live Nativity, and we are following the star straight to Capitol Hill! Matthew 2 tells the story of the arrival of the Wise Men: “Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the…