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.
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Moving Up On Capitol Hill (Might Be Somebody You Know!)
Courtesy of Legistorm: RENZO OLIVARI is Sen. Jacky Rosen’s (D-NV) new Communications Director after previously serving as the Virginia Communications Director for the Biden 2020 presidential campaign. Renzo is a 2017 BA graduate of James Madison University in Political Science, History and Political Communications. ANGELA SWINSON is the new Communications Director for Rep. Louie Gohmert…
You Heard About the Brain Cells That ‘Learned’ to Play Pong? Here’s the Rest of the Story
Headlines are shouting the news — Brain Cells in a Dish Learn to Play Pong! Any way you look at it, that’s an amazing headline. And good headlines always capture the essence of the news, right? Well, it is an amazing development, but there’s more to the story, especially when you stop and ask the…
International Drug Dealer Finds True Liberation in Jesus
Like so many other children of the Sixties, this Jewish man turned in his college years to booze, sex and drugs, experiencing pretty much the whole spectrum of pleasure highs. But he also at one point decided to turn his pleasure pursuits into a very serious and profitable business. He also got married, had a…
What Is HillFaith, Who Is Mark Tapscott And Why Should Anybody Care?
If you work on Capitol Hill, you and I likely have a great deal in common. You love this country and want to make it better. You are passionate about politics, the campaign trail and the legislative process. You worry about the future, of America and of you and your loved ones. You probably grew…
THE CHOSEN:If Jesus Was God, Why Did He Need to Prepare His Sermons?
Among the most puzzling realities about Jesus Christ is that He was simultaneously both fully God and fully Man, what theologians refer to as the “hypostatic union.” It’s not unlike being both black and white at one and the same time. It violates the Principle of Non-Contradiction in philosophy. There are multiple moments in the…
‘The Chosen’ Director Dallas Jenkins Answers Questions About His Faith, How the Show Is Done and Much More
Lots of people working on congressional staffs are watching “The Chosen,” the amazing, crowd-supported, Internet-based series on the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The series has reached unprecedented millions of viewers and is by far the most successful such program ever. With success, however, comes inevitable controversies, rumors and allegations, so there are…
Once She Hated Israel, Then She Found Yeshua
Emily Emanuel grew up in a Jewish family but her heritage was more of a political joke than anything else. “Everyone at university used to call me ‘The Jew,’ they projected a Jewish identify on me that I hadn’t actually wanted or understood,” she explains. In graduate school, she did her dissertation for a journalism…
Happy New Year! Ready to Roll Your Dice on 2022?
If that headline seems to be an odd question, it’s actually not. It’s a New Year and a lot of folks who live and work on, in and around Capitol Hill believe they are here in this world by chance, which is another way of saying by the roll of the dice. Now, think about…
BELIEVING IS SEEING: Once Upon a Time, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
If you can only read one book in 2022, “Believing is Seeing” by Dr. Michael Guillen could well be a life-changing choice regardless whether you are a determined atheist, a hard-nosed scientific materialist, or a Bible-believing Christian. The subtitle of the book describes this work perfectly: “A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and…