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.
FAITH OF AMERICA’S FOUNDERS: From the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
(30-SECOND READ) — “Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.” – The Northwest Ordinance, July 23, 1787. Quotes reprinted in HillFaith’s “The Faith of The Founders” posts are compiled from Benjamin F. Morris’ classic work, “The Christian Life and…
TESTIMONIES: Even Pumping Iron and Eating Healthy Can Be a Dead-End
(NINE-MINUTE WATCH) — Haley Erickson’s obsession with her physical appearance and eating habits led her down a path that ultimately left her empty, desperately seeking to know the purpose of her life, and even contemplating suicide. Haley’s experience is an excellent illustration of how we human beings so often settle on something — popularity, career…
BIG NEWS! Site of Joseph’s Egyptian Storehouses Confirmed
(SIX MINUTE VIDEO) — Joseph is one of the most amazing characters in the Old Testament, being sold into slavery in Egypt by jealous brothers, then thrown into jail on false charges. But things turned around when he interpreted Pharaoh’s dream. That dream warned that Egypt was about to experience seven years of great prosperity,…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Are Christians Obligated to Support Israel?
(5:53 VIEWING) — So you’re in a conversation with a colleague at lunch in the Dirksen or Longworth Cafeteria and he or she declares that “there is no connection between the Israel of the Old Testament and the State of Israel we know about today.” How do you respond, knowing that ever since the October…
HAPPY NEW YEAR! And Here’s a New Year Resolution That You’ve Probably Never Before Even Considered
By Mark Tapscott (10 MINUTE READ) — Welcome to 2025. Now that last night’s midnight revelry is past and you’re up and rarin’ to get after the great challenges and opportunities that may come your way in the next 12 months, allow me to give you something to think about that I am all but…
How HillFaith Fulfills Its Purposes
Content that appears on the HillFaith web site is intended to illustrate how the saving, personal relationship with Jesus Christ transforms hearts, minds, cultures and nations, to answer objections of critics of Christianity, and to document the crucial role of the Christian faith in America’s founding generation. In addition to the web site, HillFaith offers…
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
HillFaith will return in the New Year and in the meantime we wish all of you the Merriest of Christmases. The gifts and decorations and office parties are nice, but remember, and your life will be blessed if you do, Jesus is the Reason for the Season: “And the angel said to them, “Fear not,…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Big Majorities of Congressional Aides Think Their Work Environment is Great
Large majorities of congressional aides responding to the latest survey by the House Office of Congressional Workplace Rights (OCWR) view their office environments as favorable. Based on five factors, 76 percent or three-quarters of the 1,515 respondents view the congressional work environment as “favorable,” while only 13 percent describe the environment as “unfavorable.” On the…
CONTRADICTIONS: Here’s the 5 Most Commonly Cited and Why They Aren’t Contradictions
(SEVEN MINUTE READ/WATCH) — How many times have you heard somebody talking about the Bible, claiming it isn’t credible and dismissing it as “full of contradictions?” Maybe you, even as you read this post, are thinking to yourself, “well, yes, it is full of contradictions.” Right? Wrong. Hundreds of books have been written over the…