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.
CONTRADICTIONS: So, You Think the Bible is Full of Them?
J. Warner Wallace is the former Los Angeles Police Detective and masterful solver of murder cases that went unsolved for decades. You may recall watching him for years on NBC’s “Dateline” news documentaries. Wallace knows a thing or three about unraveling apparent contradictions in witness testimony. And for much of his early adult years, Wallace…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: George Washington on Our National Character
“I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you, and the state over which you preside, in his holy protection, that He would incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow…
TESTIMONIES: You Never Know the True Urgency of Sharing Your Faith
A man with whom he had worked many years ago “happened” to watch a video of Paul Paoli’s testimony on Facebook about his conversion to faith in Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. The man left a message saying he wanted to get a cup of coffee with him. Paul recalled that the man…
SUNDAY SONGS: ‘Jesus Paid It All’ by Tori Kelly
1 I hear the Savior say, “Thy strength indeed is small, Child of weakness, watch and pray, Find in Me thine all in all.” Refrain: Jesus paid it all, All to Him I owe; Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow. 2 Lord, now indeed I find Thy pow’r and…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Most Congressional Staffers Are Thumbs Down on Facebook AI
News that Meta employees Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create content on Facebook gets a heavily negative response among congressional aides, according to a recent CNCT Capitol Pulse survey. Among Democrats, 71 percent turned thumbs down on the idea, while 61 percent of the Republican staffers did so. Among results by position, Communications Staffers had the…
CONSIDER THIS: Cancel Culture Can Kill Science AND Freedom of Speech and Thought
HillFaith is devoted to presenting the amazing and deeply documented evidence for the literal resurrection of Jesus Christ and thus of the life-changing transformative power of the Christian faith. HillFaith is also rigorously non-partisan, with staffers from both sides of the aisle participating in the “For Hill Aides Only” Monday 12:30 apologetical Bible study and…
THIS IS HUGE: 18 Trillion Feet of You!
Yes, the headline above — 18 Trillion Feet of You! — sounds intimidating, or preposterous, or just plain unintelligible. But in fact one need not be a direct descendant of Einstein to understand what that statement of immensity means and how it applies to you. Here’s the layman’s explanation: Every cell in your body contains…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Look What George Washington Knew About Us Today
“It is indeed a pleasure, from walks of private life to view in retrospect, all the meanderings of our past labors, the difficulties through which we have waded, and the fortunate Haven to which the Ship has been brought! “It is possible after this that it should founder? Will not the All Wise, and all…
CONSIDER THIS: What If Your Consciousness Does NOT End at Death?
This statement will come as a shock, or perhaps to some a joke, but here goes: Scientific evidence is growing that your consciousness does not end when your heart stops beating, the attending physician makes note of your time of death, and your physical remains begin deterioration. What? It’s true, the scientific evidence is accumulating…
SUNDAY SONGS: ‘My Living Hope’ by Abigail Ginsterblum
How great the chasm that lay between us How high the mountain I could not climb In desperation, I turned to heaven And spoke your name into the night Then through the darkness, your loving-kindness Tore through the shadows of my soul The work is finished, the end is written Jesus Christ, my living hope…