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.
Contrary To The Conventional Wisdom, Data Shows Christianity Is NOT Disappearing From America
Is religious practice in America dying? If taken at face value, the conclusion of recent studies is clear: The U.S. is becoming increasingly secular. However, other studies continue to show that religious practice leads to increased happiness, less depression, and more involvement in community life, with a religious upbringing leading to positive outcomes in adulthood. In the…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: RACHEL CHASALOW is the new face in the office of Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.), taking up the duties as Scheduler in her first full-time position on a congressional staff. Rachel is a 2022 BA graduate of the University of Michigan in Political Science. There is a new face in the office of…
DID YOU KNOW: It’s Not Just How The Hummingbird Hovers in Mid-Air That Makes It Amazing
Seeing a hummingbird in action and up close is a rare occurrence in the part of the world inhabited by HillFaith, but it has happened on a few occasions. And every time, I have been amazed by the sheer beauty and precision of its wing motions in flight. But then I watched this John 10:10…
Two Congressional Aides Also Died In Accident That Killed Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.)
Zachary Potts had been District Director for Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) since January of 2020 and was a Field Representative for her for more than a year before that. Emma Thomson had been Walorski’s Communications Director since July of last year, and previously performed the same role for Rep. John Joyce (R-Pa.). Both Potts and…
EXPLAIN THIS: What About Quantum Theory … And Quantum Theology?
Mention “Quantum Physics” in an everyday conversation with colleagues on the Hill and odds are good it will be a brief discussion. To say that quantum physics is beyond the vast majority of us Joe Blows is an understatement. But the good folks at the Colson Center have a new video of just over a…
TODAY’S VERSE: Romans 8:38-39 on Security in Christ
“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
GOOD QUESTION: Was Jesus a Vegetarian?
There are quite a few folks around these days who argue that Jesus never consumed the flesh of animals, that He was in fact a vegetarian. Kyle Butt of the Apologetics Press responds to such claims in the following brief video. I should hasten to add at this point that it is not my view…
TODAY’S VERSE: Ephesians 2:8-10 on God’s Love and Workmanship
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
TODAY’S VERSE: Psalm 139:15-16 On Your Purpose in Life
15. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.