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.
AMANDA REPORTS: Families Are Most Trusted Major American Institution, American Bible Society Survey Finds
By Amanda Hughes (QUICK READ) — Families remain the institution with the highest trustworthiness among eight major sectors in American society, a new survey by the American Bible Society reveals. Reported by the Philadelphia-based (ABS) in the latest chapter entitled “Trust” as part of the group’s “State of the Bible USA 2025” survey research. The…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Open Positions, New Hires, Big Promotions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM ANNA ROSENFELD is the new Legislative Assistant working on the personal staff of Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.). Anna joins the Klobuchar operation after a stint as an Assistant Attorney General for the District of Columbia. She also previously worked as Law Clerk for Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: FDR on the Crucial Importance of the Bible to America
(QUICK READ) — No, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was not a member of America’s founding generation, but his lengthy tenure in the Oval from 1933 to 1945 was clearly among the most significant in the country’s entire history. So, it’s significant to make note of the following words from the lengthy statement FDR issued on…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: No SNAP Soda Gets 80% Approval Among Congressional Aides
(QUICK READ) — Restrictions on what SNAP beneficiaries can use the cards to purchase are a perennial issue in Congress and President Donald Trump’s administration is granting waivers to stops that move to bar soda and candy buys. When CNCT Capitol Pulse asked congressional aides whether they think soda should be ok to buy using…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: How Should Biblical Christians View Modern Israel?
(5:52 VIEWING) — When Hamas terrorists invaded Southern Israel on October 7, 2023, their rampage of murder, atrocity and destruction claimed the lives of more than 1,200 citizens of the modern state of Israel. This was the worst single day of Jewish casualties since The Holocaust claimed an estimated 6 million Jews in World War…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Open Positions, New Hires, Big Promotions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM IAN MARIANI made the big jump back in February from the House side where he was Senior Adviser/Communications Director for Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Calif.) to National Press Secretary for Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). And now Ian moves into the Communications Director slot for the Golden State senator. Ian…
CONSIDER THIS: Proof That God Exists in Three Minutes
(2:52 VIEWING) — Sometimes it’s the most basic question — something along the lines of “what if we …” — that leads to solutions for the most difficult problems and thus to historic advancements in technology, science and related fields. There is such a question in philosophy and it has equal application in science and…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: John Locke on How to Make Good Laws
(QUICK READ) — Englishman John Locke was among the most influential political philosophers of the 17th Century and his writings were especially well-known and studied by the leaders of the American founding generation. Locke was not an orthodox Christian, but he accorded tremendous respect to the values, especially those of relevance in the political realm,…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: More Than Half (53 Percent) of Staffers Are Single
(QUICK READ) — More than half of the responding Hill staffers in the latest CNCT Capitol Pulse survey said they are single, and fully 45 percent of those said they are “single, looking.” Perhaps surprisingly, there are slightly more single Republican aides “looking” (45 percent) than Democrats (42 percent.) The partisan difference is even more…
HILLFAITH EVENTS: ‘The Immortal Mind’ Authors Join Oct. 22 ‘Faith & Reason on the Hill’ Seminar
(QUICK READ) — YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS THIS! HillFaith resumes its newest course offering for congressional aides on Wednesday, October 22, with Session Two of the Faith and Reason on the Hill seminar entitled “Christian Apologetics and Public Life.” Session One convened September 17 in Sen. James Lankford’s conference room with nearly a dozen attendees,…