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.
CONTRADICTIONS: Did You Know You Aren’t Supposed to Exist?
(4:04 VIEWING) — What would you say if some guy walks up to in the hall in the Dirksen building and tells you that you don’t really exist, you just imagine that you do? You’d probably keep walking and try to lose the guy, right? But his question is based on a fact, namely, that…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Open Positions, New Hires, Big Promotions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: HANNAH MCCARTHY is on the move, from Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) where she was a Staff Assistant to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) as Press Assistant. Hannah is a 2024 Magna Cum Laude graduate of Franklin & Marshall College with a BA in Government and Economics. JULIE SINGLETON is…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Patrick Henry on the Battle Goes to the Brave
(QUICK READ) — “We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power… The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.” – Patrick Henry, compiled by MARK STRAND. Many of the quotes…
CONSIDER THIS: Did Joe Rogan Become a Christian After Interviewing Historian Wes Huff?
(8:49 VIEWING) — Podcaster Joe Rogan is without doubt among the most influential New Media figures in the world, thanks to multiple legions of followers, including an estimated 20 million on YouTube, 18.9 million on Instagram, 14.5 million on Spotify and 12 million on X. The only newspaper columnist with a comparable audience from the…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Strong Bipartisan Support Among Staffers for Food Reforms
(QUICK READ) — Strong majorities among both Democratic and Republican congressional staffers back proposals for eliminating highly processed foods and the use of petroleum-based dyes in what Americans eat, according to recent CNCT Capitol Pulse surveys. Hill aides aren’t nearly so united when it comes to the issue of what to do with seed oils,…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Open Positions, New Hires, Big Promotions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: DIANE ADAMSON started in her first full-time position on Capitol Hill in December 2018 as a Legislative Correspondence Fellow for Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md). Seven years later, Diane moves up from Legislative Director to Deputy Chief of Staff for the Maryland Democrat. Diane received her BA in Anthropology…
DID YOU KNOW: Signs Abound That U.S. May be on the Threshold of a Spiritual and Cultural Revival
(FIVE-MINUTE READ) — At a time when bad news seems to come at all of us from every direction at an incessant pace, two emerging trends suggest relief is coming, thanks to a spiritual and cultural revival that is gathering strength across the country. The two trends include, first, the growing interest among Gen Zers,…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Dr. Joseph Warren on the Determination to Win Freedom
(QUICK READ) — America’s freedom and independence were not won overnight or through a quick series of wins that left the British Army — then the world’s mightiest military — dazed and defeated in the field. To the contrary, there were many defeats and disappointments along the way from 1776 to 1781 when Lord Cornwallis…
TESTIMONIES: South African Dennis Zulu Was ‘Born For a Time Such as This’
(4:19 VIEWING) — Dennis Zulu grew up in the South Africa that was still suffering the evils of Apartheid, and in a family that was officially Catholic, but in fact was devoted to the worship of ancestral gods. Dennis thought of himself as a follower of God and yearning to know Him better, but he…
LONG STORY SHORT: Wait a Minute, Homology Means What?
(8:00 MINUTE VIEWING) — Ever notice how similar in structure your hand is with those of multiple other creatures in the world? For a long time, that common structure was taken to be evidence of common descent and thus as convincing evidence in support of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. But, as the following 8-minute…