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.
FOR FUTURE REFERENCE: Heading to the Beach for the Week(end)? You Should Know About the Beach Fellowship
People who work on the Hill often know all about the beaches on the Eastern Shore, including Ocean City in Maryland, and Bethany Beach and Rehoboth in Delaware. It’s easy to just sleep right past church on a beach Sunday morning, especially after a Saturday night on the boardwalk or at Funland or whatever. But…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Is The Bible Still Relevant?
It’s the most widely read book in human history, but some contemporary cultural observers contend the influence of the Bible is declining at a rapid rate, a trend seen in the growing acceptance of, to cite just one area, sexual practices sternly rejected by the Good Book. But the folks at the Colson Center, who…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ on Up The Hill This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: CARA CAMACHO: Is the new Chief of Staff for Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.). Cara’s impressive resume features previous stints in the private sector, the non-profit advocacy community, on the Hill, and in the White House as Director of the National Security Council (NSC). Cara’s MPA was awarded by the A. Alfred Taubman…
THIS IS HUGE! ‘The Sound of Freedom’ Is Must-See For Your Independence Day Weekend
People who work on Capitol Hill as congressional aides deal with vitally important issues on a regular basis, so much so that sometimes it becomes difficult to figure out which ones must be dealt with now and which can be left for another day. Then there are those that are simply ignored because facing them…
Yes, This Jewish Broadway Producer Has Found Jesus
Meet Broadway producer Jordan Gilbert, a young Jewish man who for many years hated Christians, considered them “bigots, morons and the worst of the worst.” In fact, from an early age, Gilbert knew that he hated all religions and what he wanted instead were fame, power, celebrity and praise. And for a time that’s what…
REMINDER: Juneteenth Is About The End of Slavery in America in 1865 But, Remember, Millions Are Still Enslaved Here And Around The World Today
June 19, 1865, was the day slaves in Texas first heard about President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation three years earlier and the fact they were thus free, precious news that was brought to them by Union Major-General Gordon Granger. Americans celebrate this day as the federal holiday of “Juneteenth,” the informal contraction…
SCIENCE UPRISING: So You Think The Material World Is All There Is?
Most folks educated in recent decades were taught — and it’s quite likely that the vast majority still believe — that there is nothing that makes up reality other than the material world of atoms, molecules, energy and motion. There is no spirit, nothing that is not matter in motion, measurable and without non-material significance….