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.
CONSIDER THIS: Four Reasons Why Christianity Must Be True
Lots of folks working on congressional staffs these days came to the Hill with some rather hostile presuppositions about Jesus Christ, the existence of God and the source and nature of morality. Cross-Examined.org’s Dr. Frank Turek proposes in the following 3.44-minute video that four reasons he lays out are persuasive evidence that God really does…
HILLFAITH VIDEO: Who Got Jesus’ Dead Body?
That question in the headline above is a bit of a rhetorical query because it assumes there was a dead body to be found, in which case it would indicate there had been no resurrection, contrary to Jesus’ repeated prediction and to the disciples’ claims in the days following the crucifixion. So the question of…
THE MIRACLE OF MAN: The Multiple Wonders of the Human Heart
Biologist and medical doctor Michael Denton’s invaluable book — “The Miracle of Man: The Fine Tuning of Nature for Human Existence” — is crammed full of amazing facts about the human body that point to the conclusion we are the products of an astonishing intelligence far beyond our conception. In the following 3:50 video on…
STAFF NEWS: New Data Shows Hill Aides’ Pay Up 21 Percent
Well, here’s some good news that comes hard on the heels of what at the time seemed to be a rather discouraging fact about congressional compensation despite genuine progress having been made in the 117th Congress. Legistorm’s Ketura Hetrick reports: “Despite personal offices spending a smaller proportion of their office budgets, House staffers’ median annual…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week!
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: TY MCEACHERN takes over for the first time in a Capitol Hill job as Press Secretary for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.). Before joining the New Hampshire Democrat’s squad, Ty spent several years on the campaign trail in various positions working for Democratic candidates. In 2016, he was awarded a BS degree in…
EXPLAIN THIS: Would You Die For A Lie?
That’s the headline on a display ad a bunch of congressional aides in both parties will be challenged by today in this week’s edition of the CNCT Newsletter. It’s the latest installment of HillFaith’s continuing series of one-minute videos asking challenging questions for all of us. Here’s the ad: And here’s the link to the…
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT: Why the Multiverse Theory is a Self-Defeating Claim
There is a claim often heard from atheists and agnostics during debates with Christians that there is no need for a God to create Earth and the universe in which it exists because nature has randomly created an infinite number of universes and ours just happens to be the right one for human existence. It’s…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: MARCUS GARZA makes the move from being Chief of Staff for Rep. Marie Newman (D-Ill.) to the same position for Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.). Marcus earned his BS in Political Science and International Affairs from Florida State University in 2010. CLAIRE BOSSONG is now handling the calendar for Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.)…