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.
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Are the Kids Really Fine?
If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times – “The kids will be fine.” Well, no, actually, the data is in and it shows overwhelmingly that, compared to the traditional nuclear family of Married Father and Mother, with their children, the kids aren’t going to be fine. As Katy Faust of the…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ Up On The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: In her first job on the Hill, Abbey Donaldson moves up from Intern for Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) to Press/Digital Assistant for Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA). Abbey earned her BA in History in 2020 from the University of Scranton. There’s a new Legislative Correspondent in the office of Sen. Todd Young (R-IN)…
Let’s Talk About That ‘Magic Sky Daddy’ Atheists Keep Bringing Up
Talk to an atheist about God and sooner or later (but probably sooner), you will hear the charge that people who believe He exists are actually just unable to explain some natural phenomenon, so they invent a “Magic Sky Daddy” or some variation thereof. It should be instantly noted that such a charge assumes that…
Tribute to the Biblical Archeologist Who Found King David’s Palace
There was a time when critics argued that the Old Testament’s King David was never a real person, that his story was just too full of fantastic deeds and trials to have been anything other than fables. Then, according to my friend and colleague, Quin Hillyer, in 2005 Israeli excavationist Eliat Mazar “discovered, on a…
WORKING ON THE HILL: Support Growing for Hill Staff Pay Hikes
A bipartisan coalition of advocacy groups spanning the ideological spectrum is calling on Congress to increase pay for staffers working for individual senators and representatives and for congressional committees. And for the first time in a long time, it appears more than a few members of the House of Representatives agree. The raises would come…
Now For Something Completely Different
Far-Right Apostle Paul Bans Teaching Critical Race Theory In Churcheshttps://t.co/8drGLeE77s — The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 11, 2021
EXPLAIN THIS: Why Did These Ancient Authors Write About ‘Jesus’ If He Didn’t Exist?
Contemporary discussions about Jesus of Nazareth among mixed groups of Christians and non-Christians will not infrequently include at least one mention of the argument that He never actually lived. The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were all based on an invented character, not a real, living person, according to the argument, so all…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ Up On Capitol Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: In her first job on the Hill, Catalina Constain Shin takes over duties as Constituent Services Representative for Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL). Catalina received her MS in International Public Service in 2014 from DePaul University. Miriam Cash is the new Deputy Communications Director for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), moving up from her…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is Sex ‘Assigned’ at Birth?
How many genders are there? Two, male and female, or well, how many would you like there to be, today? The latter attitude is reflective of the only-recently-heard view that sex and gender are “assigned” at birth and can thus be changed later in life. In a word, they are a choice, not a condition….
THINK ABOUT THIS: Black Pastor Explains Four Basic Tenets of Critical Race Theory
There are two kinds of people who work on congressional staffs these days — Those who are trying to come to terms one way or the other with Critical Race Theory (CRT) and those who soon will be. And it doesn’t matter if you are a scheduler, chief of staff or any other position on…