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.
THINK ABOUT THIS: Oxford Don Explains Why His Faith Leads Him to Love Science
Oxford University Professor John Lennox explains during a Veritas Forum discussion why he keeps a powerful telescope in an observatory just outside his window and how gazing through that remarkable device at the Andromeda galaxy reinforces his deep faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and his love for and respect of science. Now, if a…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Definitions Matter, Especially About ‘Rights’
Want to win a debate before it begins? Define the terms. Listen to any panel of talking heads on cable television and you soon realize that when people talk past one another, it is often a result of using the same terms, but with entirely different meanings. The Colson Center’s Shane Morris takes up this…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill (May Be Somebody You Know)
Courtesy of Legistorm: GRAEME CREWS gets the nod as the new Press Secretary for the House Oversight and Reform Committee Select Coronavirus Crisis Subcommittee after serving four years as a Senior Media Strategist for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Graeme is a 2013 graduate of Harvard with a BA in Government. HANNAH HURLEY moves…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Eight Flawed Assumptions Critics Make About the Bible
Walk into any gathering in America outside of a church and mention this subject and you are all but certain to prompt heated discussion. This guaranteed “conversation starter” is the Bible. Just announce to all within hearing that you believe the Bible is the inspired, inerrant Word of God and see what follows. What will follow…
House Administration Committee Hearing Told Hill Staff Union is ‘Unworkable, Impractical’
Wednesday’s House Committee on Administration hearing on a proposal to allow staffers working for individual Members of Congress and congressional committees to form unions provided abundant evidence that there are big problems with the idea. Only two witnesses appeared before the committee that is chaired by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), who reminded observers that on…
EXPLAIN THIS: Five Historical Evidences for the Literal Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Is the Resurrection of Jesus Christ important? Paul the Apostle said if Jesus Christ was not actually resurrected on the third day after His crucifixion, then Christians are the biggest fools of all. Put otherwise, without a risen Jesus Christ, there is no hope for Christians, or anybody else. And what about the other possibility…
FOR HILL AIDES ONLY: Would You Give Up Everything For Your Boss?
If your boss called you into his or her office today and told you that, since nothing else matters as much as winning the allegiance of voters, you must sell all of your possessions, say goodbye to your friends and family, and focus your every ounce of strength and waking hour on the campaign until…
SCIENCE AND FAITH: Three Stunning Recent Discoveries Challenge Conventional Evolutionary Wisdom
Darwinian evolution has been the established orthodoxy in respectable academic circles for a long time and, just as is the case in the political world, challenging the conventional wisdom about the origin of the species can be a risky business. But as the Discovery Institute’s Evolution News (EN) frequently notes, a growing body of evidence…
STAFF NEWS: People Are Movin’ On Up The Hill (May Be Somebody You Know!)
Courtesy of Legistorm: ALEXIS LITTRELL is who you need to talk to these days to schedule something with Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA), marking her first congressional staff position as Scheduler. Previously, Alexis served an Internship with Rep. Trent Kelly (R-MS). Alexis has a BS in Political Science from Mississippi College. MANDY SMITHBERGER is the new…
STAFF NEWS: Hearing to be Scheduled on Formation of House Staff Union
It’s official now, although the date has not been set. The House Committee on Administration will convene a hearing to discuss the logistics for moving forward with a union for congressional staff working for Members and committees of the House of Representatives. Committee Chairman Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) released this statement Wednesday: “The Office of…