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.
LESSONS FROM HISTORY (4): Renaissance, Reformation, and Humanism
By Lee Dise Fourth of a seven-part series. EDITOR’S NOTE: Lee Dise is an accomplished trombonist and computer programmer, who also happens to know a great deal about things like philosophy, theology, history and related disciplines. He’s also a born-again Christian and in this multi-installment series appearing each day, starting this week on HillFaith, Lee…
LESSONS FROM HISTORY (3): Late Medieval Philosophy and the Basic Questions
By Lee Dise Third of a seven-part series. EDITOR’S NOTE: Lee Dise is an accomplished trombonist and computer programmer, who also happens to know a great deal about things like philosophy, theology, history and related disciplines. He’s also a born-again Christian and in this multi-installment series appearing each day, starting this week on HillFaith, Lee…
LESSONS FROM HISTORY (2): From the Fragments of Empire, A New Beginning
Second of a seven-part series. EDITOR’S NOTE: Lee Dise is an accomplished trombonist and computer programmer, who also happens to know a great deal about things like philosophy, theology, history and related disciplines. He’s also a born-again Christian and in this multi-installment series appearing each day, starting this week on HillFaith, Lee will offer an…
Who Is This Jesus?
The third chapter of the Gospel of John (New International Version translation): Jesus Teaches Nicodemus 3 Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from…
LESSONS FROM HISTORY(1): Western Civilization as Cultural Synthesis
By Lee Dise First of a seven-part series. EDITOR’S NOTE: Lee Dise is an accomplished trombonist and computer programmer, who also happens to know a great deal about things like philosophy, theology, history and related disciplines. He’s also a born-again Christian and in this multi-installment series appearing each day, starting this week on HillFaith, Lee…
THE CHOSEN: Three Red Sea Miracles Changed Their Lives
“The Chosen” series about the life of Jesus Christ is simply the most successful crowd-funded entertainment project ever, but it has not been an easy one, as producer Dallas Jenkins explains in the following video. Jenkins tells us there have been three “Red Sea Moments” in the production of the second season in which it…
LESSONS FROM HISTORY (INTRO): Christian Belief and the Consequences of Ideas
By Lee Dise Introduction of a seven-part series. EDITOR’S NOTE: Lee Dise is an accomplished trombonist and computer programmer, who also happens to know a great deal about things like philosophy, theology, history and related disciplines. He’s also a born-again Christian and in this multi-installment series appearing each day, starting today on HillFaith, Lee will…
WITNESSES: Adrienne Johnson Explains Why She’s No Longer an Atheist
Adrienne Johnson is chief of staff for Dennis Prager’s Prager U outfit. If you had met her a decade or more ago and known that today she would be where she is now, you would have scoffed, or laughed. As PragerU explains in the preface to the following video, Adrienne was “once a cynical atheist,…
WORKING ON THE HILL: Should Congressional Aides Get a COLA?
Social Security recipients receive annual Cost-of-Living-Adjustments (COLA) that are often the subject of congressional action, debate and correspondence. Some corporations provide salary COLAs for some or all of their employees. But what about COLAs for the 20,000 or so mostly younger men and women who work on Capitol Hill for an individual senator or representative’s…