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.
FOR THE REST OF THE STORY: Eric Liddell
Yesterday here on HillFaith, my tribute to the great Scots gold medalist Eric Liddell appeared on these pages to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of his remarkable performance and witness during the 1924 Olympics. There is of course much more to Liddell’s story than his winning the gold medal. In fact, the most important and…
CONSIDER THIS: Don’t be Afraid, It’s Just a Spider! (And it’s Actually Kind of Miraculous)
Who doesn’t hate to encounter spiders anywhere, but especially in your home, office, car or commercial establishment? But guess what, spiders perform a crucially important role in balancing the cycle of life in the insect world. Their work in consuming millions of pests — think especially of mosquitoes and house flies — helps make human…
OLYMPICS 2024: ‘God Made Me Fast And When I Run, I Feel His Pleasure.’ Do You?
EDITOR’S NOTE: Today is the first day of the 2024 Paris Olympics, a century after the great Scots runner, Eric Liddell, gave the world a stirring display of courage and faith in action on the athletic field and behind the scenes as well. Longtime HillFaith readers know that Liddell is immensely admired and honored on…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: BRITTANY PSYHOGIOS-SMITH moves into the Scheduling Director position working for Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.). Before joining the Speaker’s staff, Brittany was Deputy Chief of Staff for Rep. Brad Finstad (R-MN). Brittany is a 2011 graduate of Bethel University with a BA in Business and Political Science. In another Minnesota…
CONTRADICTIONS: The 16 Most Common Exegetical Errors Made by Bible Skeptics
Claims that selected passages in the Bible contradict each other are quite possibly the most frequently heard objection from skeptics that Christians hear when they seek to share their faith in Jesus Christ in the public square. Such claims are also routinely cited as established fact in the mainstream media, in college classrooms, the entertainment…
MYTH-BUSTERS: Check Out This Four-Point Test to See if Miracle Claims Are True
Christians believe Jesus Christ was crucified dead on the cross, He was buried in a tomb hewn out of a big rock, and He rose alive again three days later. The Resurrection is the greatest of a whole series of miracles Jesus performed during His three-year ministry in Galilee and Judea. Other religions also claim…
TESTIMONIES: What Jesus Told This Marine Brought Him To Tears
But what Jesus told Marine Drill Instructor and Infantry leader Rick Jimenez also opened his eyes to the truth about himself, his calling in this life and the all-encompassing love of God. Shortly before he was scheduled to ship over to Iraq for a year-long combat deployment, Rick and his wife were separated. He was…
EXPLAIN THIS: Darwin’s Racism of the Gaps
By Jonathan Witt In the wake of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859), thought leaders in Europe and the United States used his theory of evolution by natural selection to justify violent and dehumanizing treatment of non-whites around the globe. This much is well known. Less widely recognized is that Darwin’s case for ape-to-man evolution…