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.
How Atheist J. Warner Wallace Became Christian J. Warner Wallace
J. Warner Wallace of Cold-Case Christianity was not born into a family of Christians. He didn’t go to a Christian school, either as a child, a teen or as a young adult. When he joined the Los Angeles Police Department, Jesus was nowhere on his life’s radar screen. Wallace was, quite simply, a professing atheist….
EXPLAIN THIS: Who Got His Body?
That Jesus was crucified dead and then buried in a tomb the New Testament describes as that of Joseph of Arithamea is not disputed by the vast majority of scholars. That His body disappeared is also not disputed, so the question then is what happened to it? Was Jesus resurrected, as His disciples claimed? Or…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Ashley Phillips is the new Scheduler in the office of Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), moving over from the same position with Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV). Ashley earned her MBA in Healthcare Management in 2018 from Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA, and her BA in Human Resources Management from Liberty in 2015. While…
Just in Case You Wondered Where I Was Memorial Day Weekend …
I was sitting with my incredible son, Marcus, just outside of Turn Two at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Sunday taking in all of the intoxicating sights and sounds of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing, the Indy 500. This was not your typical Father-Son outing. I’ve been a racing fan since I was about five years…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Evidence That the Gospels are Based on Eyewitnesses
Mention eyewitnesses in the Gospels to a biblical skeptic like Bart Ehrman and the response will a litany of claims that amount to either accusing Matthew, Mark, Luke and John of making it all up, or that the church in the century after them embellished their work with legendary stuff. That legendary stuff included, according…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ on Up the Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Malikha Daniels is the new Staff Director for the House Committee on Agriculture’s Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture and Research, working for Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI). Malikha previously was a Policy Analyst for the subcommittee. She earned her MPP from American University in 2018 and her BA in Spanish Language and Literature in…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Do Christians Hurt Their Witness by Defending Religious Liberty?
That question in the headline above might well strike some as odd, but historically there are actually two groups that think Christians should stay out of the public square and keep their faith to themselves. The first group came from the Christian community itself and is all but extinct today. It was not uncommon after…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Bats, Birds and a Bible Blunder?
There are three things I know about bats: They are creepy looking, they are often associated with Halloween and scary movies, and the deadly Covid-19 virus allegedly came from those living in caves in China that somehow ended up on somebody’s dinner table in the city of Wuhan. But skeptics see something else in bats;…
New Data Analysis Demonstrates Religious Liberty is Catalyst for Economic Freedom
Social and political scientists, as well as economists and faith community scholars have discussed ever since Adam Smith which comes first, religious liberty or economic freedom and which factor is the more important one in encouraging human flourishing. This is a fundamental issue for congressional aides working for senators and representatives with interest in economic…
Advocacy Groups Call for Better Paid, Bigger Hill Staffs
May 17th, 2021 The Honorable Rosa DeLauro Chair House Committee on Appropriations H-307, The Capitol Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Kay Granger Ranking Member House Committee on Appropriations H-307, The Capitol Washington, DC 20515 Re: In support of a 20% increase in the House Member Resource allocation and increased committee funding Dear Chair DeLauro and Ranking…