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.
FIRST AMENDMENT: Court Strikes Down Nevada’s Covid Church Attendance Limits
More fruit harvested today from the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn as the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious freedom wins in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. From the decision today against Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak’s clearly discriminatory anti-Covid regulations that penalized churches with severe attendance limits while leaving casinos essentially free…
Weekly Church Goers Only Group With Improved Mental Health In Latest Gallup Survey
Regular church attenders were the sole major group surveyed in the 2020 Gallup Poll Americans’ Assessment of Their Mental Health to show a positive increase, compared to 2019. The increase was only four percent, from 42 percent of respondents claiming to attend weekly church services who rated their mental health condition as excellent in 2019,…
Justice Samuel Alito’s Christmas Present For America
When U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito spoke to the National Lawyers Convention of the Federalist Society in early November, no one would have predicted that his address would be a Christmas gift to America. Alito’s basic message was a warning that the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty — our “First Freedom” —is…
California Court Delivers Stinging Rebuke To Newsom’s Anti-Church Covid-19 Regulations
California Superior Court Judge Gregory Pulskamp delivered a stinging rebuke of Gov. Gavin Newsom late Thursday, ruling against “all Covid-19 restrictions that fail to treat houses of worship equal to the favored class of entities [i.e., ‘essential businesses’”]. The ruling came in the case of Father Trevor Burfitt v Gavin Newsom, a suit brought by…
MYTH BUSTERS: Did An Imposter Fake The Resurrection?
It’s one of a half-dozen or so theories critics of the resurrection of Jesus Christ have propounded over the years in their effort to explain away the central claim of Christianity, that Jesus was crucified dead, buried and on the third day rose again and appeared to hundreds of people before returning to Heaven. How…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Friday’s Poached Egg
Then Jesus said: “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him and we will come to him and make our home with him. The one who does not love me will not keep my word. The word that you hear is not mine but is from the Father who…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Moving Up On The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: Alex Bolton sets up shop as Chief of Staff for incoming Freshman Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY). Alex is moving over from being Field Finance Director for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC). He is a 2013 graduate of Colorado State University with a BA in Political Science and Ethnic Studies. Bethany Berntson…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is The Christmas Season Just A Pagan Holiday?
You may have heard that Christmas is little more than the early Christians’ co-opting a bunch of pagan holiday traditions and practices in order to not be left out of all the fun. It’s often presented as a snarky way of more generally discrediting Christianity. Shane Morris of the Colson Center takes the snark apart…
HERE’S A CHRISTMAS SPECIAL YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS
No, you won’t see Bing Crosby singing “White Christmas.” Charlie Brown, bless his heart, is nowhere to be seen in it. And nobody stands up behind a podium and starts preaching. It’s “The Chosen” Christmas Special. This actually is something very special for Christmas. With an extraordinary lineup of group and individual artists, and a…