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: The Goldilocks Principle and Earth
By Jeff Miller, Ph.D. Do you recall the story of Goldilocks from your youth? She struggled as she sought the right porridge, chair, and bed, but in the end, her discoveries were “just right.” The Goldilocks Principle in secular cosmology is a recognition by scientists that the Earth appears to be “just right” for life…
THE CHOSEN: Healing the Leper
Jesus performed many miracles during His three-year ministry on Earth, including healing a leper, as described in Matthew 8: 1-4, which tells us: “When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him. And behold, a leper came to him and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.’…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Grady Austin is taking the challenges of being a Legislative Assistant in the office of Rep. Tom Rice (R-SC). Grady was previously a Legislative Correspondent for the South Carolina Republican. Grady received his Master of Public Administration from Clemson University in 2019 and his BA in Political Science and Government in 2017…
HILLFAITH STUDIES: Jesus’ Sixth Great ‘I AM’ Claim – “The Way and the Truth and the Life”
“Jesus said to him: ‘I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No man comes to the Father except through me.’” – John 14:6 When Jesus tells His disciples that He “is the way and the truth and the life,” He is literally only hours away from His arrest, multiple trials, crucifixion and…
Why It Matters That the Gospels Were Written Within the Lifetimes of Eyewitnesses
There was a maxim in the newsrooms I grew up in professionally that held credible journalists must always “get it first, but first get it right.” That’s analogous to the first job of historians – seek out the most credible sources and get the details right. As Cold-Case Christianity’s J. Warner Wallace points out in…
Welcome News On Staff Pay
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) released the following statement this afternoon regarding plans to de-couple staff compensation from that paid to senators and representatives: “I welcome the Speaker’s announcement today to de-link Member and Congressional staff pay, allowing hard-working Congressional employees to make higher salaries and improving Congress’ ability to retain the best and…
Something Completely Different: Whatever Happened to Bob Dylan?
Few voices from the tumultuous “Sixties” that defined the young lives of millions of Baby Boomers — more than a few of whom still work on Capitol Hill and elsewhere in the nation’s capital — have survived with influence across the generations into the 21st century. Among those few, none stands out more than Bob…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ Up On The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Katie Everett is the new Press Assistant working for Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), moving over from Concerned Women for America where she was a Coordinator for the Young Women for America effort. Katie is a proud Texas Aggie, earning a BS in Communications and Media Studies from Texas A&M in 2020. Making…
Think About This: What Are We?
Keith Lowery is the author of a blog I’ve recently come to appreciate, entitled “Stuff I’m Thinking About.” I’ve never met Keith in person, but I feel like he and I could have an interesting conversation. He is a thinking guy with a thoughtful faith. He has a lot to say that is well worth…
What’s This, Thousands of Christians on the Streets of Seattle?
Notice how many young people are in this: https://youtu.be/FxFjvVr2gJg