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.
Why Jesus’ Resurrection is Likely the Best Documented Historic Event Ever
Today is Easter Sunday. Two-thousand years ago on this day, Jesus’ disciples, beginning with Mary Magdalene, began claiming His tomb was empty and they had seen and talked with Him because He had been resurrected from the dead. If that claim is true, it is the most remarkable fact of history and the central event…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: CHAD TENPENNY put in 24 years working for Sen. Robert Dole, Sen. Pat Roberts and Sen. Roger Marshall, all Kansas Republicans, and now he is leaving the Hill to start a Private Law Practice focused on Government Affairs, General Counsel Services and Political Consulting. Congrats on a great Hill career, Chad. Moving…
Jesus is Not a Democrat, or a Republican. He Changes the Lives of Both!
There aren’t a lot of issues on which Democrats and Republicans agree these days. If you work on Capitol Hill, you are expected to line up with one party’s agenda for America or the other, and to think, speak and act in accordance with that agenda. But what about the agenda of your life? Do…
Can You Really Come to Faith While Working in a Science Lab?
Dr. John Bloom teaches physics at Biola University and has two Phds, one in physics and the other in Near Middle Eastern Studies. Kind of a rare combination, but he also did a lot of work and study in chemistry, “Why not,” he chuckles, anticipating perhaps a logical question. Bloom grew up in a conservative…
SUNDAY SONGS: ‘God of All My Days’ by Casting Crowns
God of All My Days I came to You with my heart in pieces And found the God with healing in His hands I turned to You, put everything behind me And found the God who makes all things new I looked to You drowning in my questions And found the God who holds all…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: HARTLEY VOSS is the new Speechwriter for the Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ). Hartley has a BA in Communications from American University and an MFA in Cinematic Arts from the University of Southern California. Hartley is formerly a Researcher for “Mad Men” and “Orange…
STAFF NEWS: Harvard, Columbia Lead Ivy Leaguers Working on Capitol Hill
A total of 854 of the approximately 15,000 congressional staff aides are graduates of one of the eight Ivy League schools, with the most coming from Harvard (244), second-most from Columbia (158) and third-most from Yale (102), based on HillFaith searches of Legistorm’s comprehensive database. Penn ranks fourth with an even 100 graduates working on…
There’s a Big Global ‘Chosen’ Watch Party Sunday Night
We’d love for you to join us and thousands of others LIVE this Sunday night at 8:30 ET. We’re celebrating Easter week with 8 nights of livestreams where we’ll watch two Chosen episodes each night. We launch on Palm Sunday with Episodes 1 and 2. Why join us if you’ve already seen it? A few…