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.
EMERGING ISSUES ON THE HILL: Just One-Third Of Young Adults Feel ‘Deeply Cared-For By Those Around Me.’ Is Social Media The Culprit?
A major new survey of nearly 16,000 young adults aged 18 to 35 years old living in 25 countries around the world turned up numerous positive trends but it revealed some genuinely worrisome news as well. The survey — entitled “The Connected Generation” — was conducted collaboratively by World Vision, the Washington-based “global Christian humanitarian…
If Clarissa Rojas’s Life-Story Doesn’t Inspire You, Nothing Will
Clarissa Rojas, 23, is one of the youngest communications directors working on Capitol Hill, having begun serving in that position earlier this month for Rep. Darren Soto (D-Fla.). But her latest position is not her first on Capitol Hill. Rojas previously served as press secretary for Rep. Nannette Diaz Barragan (D-Calif.) and before that as…
Congress Needs Bigger, Better-Paid Or More Experienced Staffs?
What do you say if a former boss asks you for a few minutes to chat, then closes the door and explains that she wants to pick your brain about reshaping her staff to advance her legislative agenda more effectively? Do you say “hire more staff” or “let some people go and pay those you…
WORKING ON THE HILL: Not Happy In Your Job? Step One To Healthy Change — Count Your Blessings
This post came about today because early this morning as I was walking Twister, our exuberant Black Lab, I was somehow reminded by a magnificent oak of the fact I couldn’t see the trees for the forest on my first “bad” job on Capitol Hill. Here’s the background: My first job on the Hill was…
WORKING ON THE HILL: *Look Who’s ‘Movin’ On Up’
Recent Staff Moves, As Reported By Legistorm: Greg Brooks is now chief of staff for Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio). The Brooks and Wenstrup connection goes back to 2012 when Brooks served as political director. Brooks has filled just about every other key staff slot for Wenstrup in the years since. He is a 2010 Magna…
WASHINGTON NATIONALS GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES!!!
God is impartial, but HillFaith isn’t! Go Nats! Bring on the Pinstripes or the Astros, makes no difference.
Why Are We Silent When Black Africans Are Sold Into Slavery Every Day?
America’s Civil War ended slavery in this country and the evil institution has been outlawed in much of the remainder of the world. But not a day goes by now that Black Africans aren’t sold into bondage. It’s happening in Northern Africa in Muslim nations like Libya, the Sudan and Mauritania. In Libya alone, CNN…
Morality Is Relative? Liar, Liar! Pants On Fire!
Frank Turek explains why ‘what’s right for thee may not be right for me’ leads to very long noses
THINK ABOUT THIS: If You Can’t Measure Your Thoughts, Do They Really Exist?
If the physical universe that we see, smell, hear, feel and taste is all that exists, how can we account for the fact we all have thoughts and emotions that are just as “real” to us as any of our senses? This might initially seem like an odd question, but in fact it “points” to…
If God Is All-Knowing, All Powerful, How Can We Have Free Agency?
Great question, that, in the headline. The smartest theologians and philosophers in every age for the past 2,000+ years (and more recently, physicists and mathematicians) have tried to figure how human beings can have free will in a universe in which everything is predestined by God. At the very least, that proposition appears to violate…