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 THE FOUNDERS: Justice Joseph Story on the Purpose of the First Amendment
(QUICK READ) — “The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less to advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects [denominations] and to prevent any national ecclesiastical patronage of the national government.” – Joseph Story, Supreme Court Justice from 1811 to 1845, Commentaries…
GLIMPSES OF GOD, Episode 4: The Hummingbird’s Rainbow Wings
(QUICK VIEW) — Who among us has not at least once in our lifetimes saw a rainbow up in the sky and then paused, if only for a few seconds, to admire the amazing beauty and color of the natural phenomenon? It’s a view that never gets old. Those rainbows are the product of sunlight…
THIS IS HUGE! Did Jesus REALLY Claim to be God?
(8:45 VIEWING) — Christianity is not a religion of dos and don’ts, it is a relationship between God, in the second person of the Trinity Jesus Christ, and the individual man or woman who believes He is the God who forgives and who was literally resurrected from the dead three days after dying on the…
AMANDA NEWS: What You Believe About The Supernatural Shapes Where You Turn in Tough Times
(921 WORDS) — Beliefs about the supernatural frequently reveal where people will turn to solve the persistent and most challenging problems in their lives, according to new research conducted by the American Bible Society (ABS). Respondents to the Philadelphia-based ABS’s “State of the Bible USA 2026” survey were queried on their beliefs about the supernatural….
HILL STAFF NEWS: Open Positions. Helpful Tips. Veteran Advice.
MOVING UP: Courtesy of Legistorm: ANNA SONG gets the promotion to Senior Legislative Assistant after serving on the personal staff of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) as Legislative Assistant for nearly four years. Anna earned her BA in Political Science in 2018 from the University of California at Santa Barbara. GOWAN SMITH takes over as Legislative…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Democrat Staffers Want More Union Contracts for Aides
(QUICK READ) — This will not come as a surprise to most readers, but a huge majority of Democratic aides working on Capitol Hill told a recent CNCT Capitol Pulse survey that they would “support union contracts becoming more common on Capitol Hill.” Fully 70 percent of the Democratic aides overall replied affirmatively, including 88…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: James Madison on How We Must Govern Ourselves First, Then the Nation
(QUICK READ) — James Madison, the “father of the Constitution,” is surely one of the most amazing men among the Founding generation, and yet he is hardly accorded the respect and admiration his life and accomplishments for this nation clearly warrant.. He was a leader in that original example of a “greatest generation,” the one…
GLIMPSES OF GOD, Episode 3: How Many Stars Can You Count ?
(QUICK VIEW) — How long do you think it would take you to count to one million, assuming you spoke each number out loud and said two digits per second? Three or four days? A week maybe? Think you could even keep going long enough to get to a million? Well, HillFaith asked ChatGPT how…
FAITH FOR THE EVERYDAY: 5 Signs God Is Calling You Deeper
(14:24 VIEWING) — If you are a congressional aide who knows Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you can be absolutely certain that He put you in the most powerful capitol for a purpose. But how do you know when God is calling you to that deeper relationship with Him that comes about when…