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.
CONSIDER THIS: So You Think You Are A Rebel?
Ever since the 1960s, millions of Americans have spent big parts of our adolescent and early adult years trying to be different, to stand out from the crowd by rebelling against conventional morality, “The Man,” the system, political arrangements, etc. etc. But guess what! As cross-examine.org’s Melissa Dougherty explains in the following video short, what…
QUICK TAKES: Poll Finds Faith Voters Most Concerned About First Amendment Freedoms
A new national survey of voters who identify themselves as “Faith Voters” finds this key segment of the American electorate puts protection of the First Amendment’s guarantee of every person’s freedom of religious practice and expression to be a top factor in determining which candidates get their support. The survey conducted by the Atlanta-based Trafalgar…
What Is HillFaith About? Only The Most Influential Person Who Ever Lived
Jesus lived on this Earth 2,000 years ago, but no other person in history has done and said more to shape your life and world today. Maybe you should know more about Him. That’s the purpose of HillFaith, to share the facts about Jesus Christ with congressional aides, regardless of party, political ideology or any…
MYTH-BUSTERS: Here’s What College Didn’t Tell You About Christianity and Science
If you attended a college or university during the past four or five decades, you were likely taught that Christianity and Science are enemies and that the former did everything it could to suppress the search for knowledge, with the punishment of Galileo by the Medieval Catholic Church being the prime illustration. Well, the truth…
HARD FACTS: So You Think Christianity Suppressed Science and Intellect, Especially in the Middle Ages?
We’ve all heard it. You know, the stuff about how during the Middle Ages the church suppressed science and encouraged myths and fables. And who can forget those yarns about how the church made everybody think the Earth is flat as a pancake and the center of the universe? LOL! Well, there is another side…
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is Symbolized in Every Spring Bloom
If you are like me, Spring is the most exciting and energizing of the four seasons because it is all about new life, new color and new possibilities for the days ahead. The lonely cold of winter is behind and the sun’s rays have an enveloping warmth about them. There is nothing coincidental in the…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: MEREDITH BOOKER has signed on as Policy Adviser to Sen. Jeff Merkley, having previously served as a Legislative Aide and before that as a Legislative Correspondent for the Oregon Democrat. Meredith is a 2022 graduate of the Loyola University of New Orleans School of Law and a 2016 graduate of Oregon State…