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.
STAFF NEWS: Look Who is Moving Up on Capitol Hill This Week (Might be Somebody You Know!)
Courtesy of Legistorm: Rep. Young Kim (R-CA) has a new Field Representative, SARAH MENDOZA, who was previously doing similar work for State Sen. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh (R-CA). Sarah is a 2018 Hofstra University graduate with a BA in Communications and Media Studies. MOLLY BLOCK is making the move from Louisiana to North Dakota. No, she’s…
STAFF NEWS: Conservative Groups Push for Hill Staff Pay Hikes
A coalition of conservative advocacy groups is pushing Republican leaders on the Senate Appropriations Committee to support measures to increase funding and staffing resources to revive congressional oversight and to improve compensation for Hill aides. In a lengthy letter to Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) and Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN), the top GOPer on the appropriations…
Kristallnacht Began Tonight, 83 Years Ago
My friend Jeff Dunetz at The Lid reminds us that 83 years ago tonight, the Holocaust began with Kristallnacht. Hitler and his National Socialists movement — aka “Nazis” — launched systematic attacks, arrests and property destruction across Germany and the occupied portions of Czechoslovakia in 1938. “Ninety-nine Jews were murdered, and 25,000 to 30,000 were…
What a Concept! A World Where Free People Can Work … Freely
“You may be a CEO who is a Christian, but not a Christian CEO.” These are the words that I believe eventually led to my husband’s departure from his company. He had run a successful tech company for more than a decade, and 2020 was the most profitable year yet. However, identity politics led the…
WATCH THIS BEFORE IT’S BANNED: The Reality of Abortion
Be forewarned: The concluding photos are extremely graphic. But surely it is time we face this reality for what it is — genocide — pure and simple. And unforgivably horrible. And If You Want to Do Something About it, Send a SWAT Team to Capitol Hill … For a Change!
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: The Church is Full of Hypocrites!
My response to the claim voiced in the headline to this post about the church being “full of hypocrites” would be “you’re right, but come on in and join us because we’ve got room for one more.” And if I’m feeling really snappy, I might well also ask “does your doctor’s lack of a funny…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who Is Moving Up On The Hill This Week (Might Be Somebody You Know!)
Courtesy of Legistorm: JAMIE VARELA steps up from Legislative Aide to Legislative Assistant for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). Jamie began his career on the Hill as an Intern for Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) in 2017, then moved to the Rubio office where he has been ever since. Jamie earned his MPA in 2017 from the…
EXPLAIN THIS: So You Think Jesus Never Really Existed?
There are actually folks who deny that Jesus Christ ever really existed. Kyle Butt of the Apologetics Press addresses this claim in the following 7:10 video and presents the evidence from the Bible and secular history that make it abundantly clear how uninformed such a claim truly is.
THINK ABOUT THIS: If You Attended College, Thank a Jesus Follower
This will undoubtedly come as a shock to a lot of folks reading this post, but an examination at the history of college and university education reveals that Christianity played the key role in the history and development of higher education in the Western world, according to J. Warner Wallace in his latest book, “Person…