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.
MORE HILL STAFF NEWS: Check out CNCT’s ‘Know Your Worth With Salary Insights’
(QUICK READ) — If you’ve worked on the Hill for any length of time, questions have crowded your mind about how your salary compares with those of others doing the same duties and putting in a comparable amount of hours. It wasn’t that long ago that getting salary data on congressional staff positions was tougher…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Open Positions, New Hires, Big Promotions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM GREG BROOKS is the newest face in the staff office of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.), taking over duties as House Operations Director. Greg makes the move following tenure as Chief of Staff for Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC). Greg earned his MA in Government in 2024…
CONSIDER THIS: No, The Encode Evidence Shows ‘Junk DNA’ is a Myth
(8:29 VIEWING) —Among the major tenets of the conventional wisdom in the scientific community that is a product of post-modern evolutionary materialism is the claim that 98 percent of human DNA is worthless. For decades, the claim about “Junk DNA” was accepted uncritically by the vast majority of scientists with an interest in the issue….
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: James Madison on the ‘Duty of Every Man’
(QUICK READ) — James Madison is known mainly as the “Father of the Constitution” for his crucial role at the Constitutional Convention and only secondarily as the nation’s fourth President, who presided over the nation during the War of 1812 with Great Britain. The specifics of Madison’s personal view of Christianity are not known, but…
TESTIMONIES: From Atheist MIT Scientist to Follower of Jesus Christ
(9:45 VIEWING) — This will come as a shock to some congressional aides, including perhaps even a few of those who are MIT graduates, but there are followers of Jesus Christ among that highly esteemed university’s most successful and widely respected professors. One of them is Dr. Rosalind Picard. Just consider this from her official…
THE FOUR SUNDAYS OF CHRISTMAS: Merry Christmas From the Moon, 1968
(3:52 VIEWING) — Here’s something about America that hardly ever is remembered in our public life — We are the only nation in the entire history of Earth to send men to the Moon and safely return them back home. The immensity of the technological challenges in successfully going to the moon and back are…
THANKSGIVING FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: James Madison’s 1815 Presidential Proclamation
(QUICK READ) — Today is Thanksgiving 2025 and, as with every one of the previous such days in this country, Americans, more than any other people ever on the face of this good Earth, have so much for which to be thankful. When President James Madison issued his Thanksgiving Day Proclamation in March 1815, it…
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
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FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: John Adams on Property Law as Sacred
(QUICK READ) — Two of the 10 Commandments — “Thou Shalt Not Covet” and “Thou Shalt Not Steal” — are in the mind of America’s second President as essential to the development and preservation of civilized societies. Protecting the security of the individual’s property against theft by other people and from theft by governments through…