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: People Are Movin’ On Up The Hill!
Courtesy of Legistorm: There’s a new Office Manager working for Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) and her name is DESHONAE LUSTER. DeShonae is making the move up after serving Cherfilus-McCormick as Executive Assistant. She is a 2021 MA graduate of South University in Health/Healthcare Administration/Management and a 2020 graduate of Bethune-Cookman University in Health and Exercise…
STAFF NEWS: One-in-Eight Hill Staffers Living in D.C. Paid Less Than a Living Wage
Congressional aides in junior level staff positions and living in the District of Columbia are typically paid low salaries, but a new analysis of compensation and cost-of-living data shows one in eight of them receive less than a living wage. “For many job-seekers who don’t have financial help from relatives or time for an additional…
SCIENCE AND FAITH: What About the Multiverse Theory?
Consider this: If something exists, it has either always existed or it had a beginning. Since science is virtually unanimous that our universe had a beginning — that is, a “Big Bang” — then it becomes logically necessary to explain how and why that beginning took place. In other words, the great issue of Creation…
Something Amazing Is Happening In the Promised Land
Here’s something to ponder the next time you find yourself wondering if there really could be a God acting within and shaping human history — the Jewish people have survived for more than two millennia despite efforts from of old to erase them from the face of the Earth. Hmmm, maybe then it’s no mere…
On Eric Liddell, the Olympics and China
When the Winter Olympics gather next month in China, it won’t be the first time the quadrennial games were held in Beijing. The first was in 2008 when the summer games were convened in the Chinese capitol. That was the year when NBC sports reporter and former pro tennis player Mary Carillo produced something of…
He Found He no Longer Had Enough Faith to be an Atheist
Dr. Frank Turek of cross-examined.org speaks around the country and when you speak as often and as far and wide as he does, you are assured of meeting legions of people who have read your books, checked out your web site and watched your videos. But it’s not everyday that you run into a man…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Moving Up On The Hill (Might Be Someone You Know!)
Courtesy of Legistorm: BENI HARMONY moves into her first full-time challenge on Capitol Hill, serving as Press Secretary for Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ). Beni was previously an Intern in the office of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL). She plans to be a 2024 graduate of the Thunderbird School of Global Management with a BS in International…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Moving Up On Capitol Hill (Might Be Somebody You Know!)
Courtesy of Legistorm: RENZO OLIVARI is Sen. Jacky Rosen’s (D-NV) new Communications Director after previously serving as the Virginia Communications Director for the Biden 2020 presidential campaign. Renzo is a 2017 BA graduate of James Madison University in Political Science, History and Political Communications. ANGELA SWINSON is the new Communications Director for Rep. Louie Gohmert…
You Heard About the Brain Cells That ‘Learned’ to Play Pong? Here’s the Rest of the Story
Headlines are shouting the news — Brain Cells in a Dish Learn to Play Pong! Any way you look at it, that’s an amazing headline. And good headlines always capture the essence of the news, right? Well, it is an amazing development, but there’s more to the story, especially when you stop and ask the…
International Drug Dealer Finds True Liberation in Jesus
Like so many other children of the Sixties, this Jewish man turned in his college years to booze, sex and drugs, experiencing pretty much the whole spectrum of pleasure highs. But he also at one point decided to turn his pleasure pursuits into a very serious and profitable business. He also got married, had a…