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.
Jesus is Not a Democrat, or a Republican. He Changes the Lives of Both!
There aren’t a lot of issues on which Democrats and Republicans agree these days. If you work on Capitol Hill, you are expected to line up with one party’s agenda for America or the other, and to think, speak and act in accordance with that agenda. But what about the agenda of your life? Do…
Can You Really Come to Faith While Working in a Science Lab?
Dr. John Bloom teaches physics at Biola University and has two Phds, one in physics and the other in Near Middle Eastern Studies. Kind of a rare combination, but he also did a lot of work and study in chemistry, “Why not,” he chuckles, anticipating perhaps a logical question. Bloom grew up in a conservative…
SUNDAY SONGS: ‘God of All My Days’ by Casting Crowns
God of All My Days I came to You with my heart in pieces And found the God with healing in His hands I turned to You, put everything behind me And found the God who makes all things new I looked to You drowning in my questions And found the God who holds all…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: HARTLEY VOSS is the new Speechwriter for the Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ). Hartley has a BA in Communications from American University and an MFA in Cinematic Arts from the University of Southern California. Hartley is formerly a Researcher for “Mad Men” and “Orange…
STAFF NEWS: Harvard, Columbia Lead Ivy Leaguers Working on Capitol Hill
A total of 854 of the approximately 15,000 congressional staff aides are graduates of one of the eight Ivy League schools, with the most coming from Harvard (244), second-most from Columbia (158) and third-most from Yale (102), based on HillFaith searches of Legistorm’s comprehensive database. Penn ranks fourth with an even 100 graduates working on…
There’s a Big Global ‘Chosen’ Watch Party Sunday Night
We’d love for you to join us and thousands of others LIVE this Sunday night at 8:30 ET. We’re celebrating Easter week with 8 nights of livestreams where we’ll watch two Chosen episodes each night. We launch on Palm Sunday with Episodes 1 and 2. Why join us if you’ve already seen it? A few…
LONG STORY SHORT: Cell Membranes Don’t ‘Just Happen’ (And You Die If They Don’t Happen Somehow)
Ever hear of “homeostasis?” If you aren’t really into cellular biology, odds are you’re not familiar with that term. What it means is the ability of an organism to maintain the proper internal balance between obtaining what it must have for life and getting rid of the stuff that would kill it. Now, did you…
HILLFAITH STUDIES: Here’s Why the Three Best-Known Alternative Explanations for the Empty Tomb Make No Sense At All
Skeptics have proposed over the years three basic alternative explanations for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, including the Swoon Theory, the Hallucination Theory and the Wrong-Tomb Theory. Here’s the basic issue underlying the debate about the Resurrection: If Jesus was resurrected on the third day following His crucifixion and burial in the rich man’s tomb,…
HILLFAITH STUDIES: Why the Empty Tomb Points to Jesus’ Literal Resurrection
All four of the New Testament gospels report that, when the women who were the first to visit the tomb of Jesus on the third day following His death and burial, arrived there, they found it empty and wide open. When John and Peter subsequently ran to the tomb, they also found it empty. So…
EXPLAIN THIS: A Man Who Says These Things About Himself …
Who is Jesus? Ask most people these days and they are likely to say Jesus was a great moral teacher in ancient times, or perhaps one of a series of claimants to be the messiah who would defeat the Romans and restore Israel to its former glory. Others of a more skeptical bent call Jesus…