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.
HILL STAFF NEWS: Open Positions, New Hires, Big Promotions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: HEATHER ELLERS-BOWSER is the new Senior Counsel working for Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.) on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee. Previously, Heather was Chief Counsel at the Department of Transportation. She earned her law degree from George Mason University Law School. RUTHANNE…
CONSIDER THIS: You Likely Have No Idea How Amazing Are Spiders
(8:01 VIEWING) — Do spiders give you the heebie-jeebies? They do me, having grown up in Oklahoma where Fiddlebacks, Black Widows and Tarantulas are quite common. Even harmless Brown Wood Spiders still give me the creeps! So, you can imagine how I approached this latest beautiful, amazing video from the John 10:10 Project and Illustra…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Faith and the Cornerstone of the U.S. Capital
(QUICK READ) — It was April 15, 1791, “when the Hon. Daniel Carroll and Dr. David Stewart superintended the fixing of the first cornerstone of the District of Columbia, at Jone’s Point, near Alexandria,” according to Benjamin F. Morris. The commemorative remarks on that day featured Rev. James Muir of the Old Presbyterian Meeting House…
TESTIMONIES: Marcus Dreamed of Playing Division 1 College Football, But Then Jesus Gave Him a Bigger Dream
(4:38 VIEWING) — Marcus Smith grew up in a beautiful rural part of Wisconsin and he grew up loving football and dreaming of some day playing for a Big 10 university at the Division 1 level of college football. But there came a time when he realized he was living a double life; professing on…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is Marriage Really Just a Piece of Paper?
(6:20 VIEWING) — It’s a commonplace these days to hear people claim they aren’t getting married and are instead simply living together because doing the latter is a good way to “check compatibility” or “marriage is nothing more than a legal piece of paper.” Is that true? It is certainly a widely held belief, but…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Big Majorities of GOP Aides Say ‘Ban the Speed Cameras in DC!’
(QUICK-READ) — Everywhere you drive in the District of Columbia, including at multiple locations around Capitol Hill, the city government has erected speed cameras that use radar to track your speed and automatically issue tickets whenever it thinks you are over the legal limit. Forget any presumption of innocence with speed cameras because if you’ve…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Open Positions, New Hires, Big Promotions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: SARAH GRACE STUBBLEFIELD makes the big jump from Auburn University to serving as Rapid Response Analyst for Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.). Previously, Sarah Grace was Shift Leader for the Campus Kitchen at Auburn. She received her BS with an Economics major and Political Science minor…
MYTH-BUSTERS: Christianity Liberated Women in the Ancient World
(5:36 VIEWING) — In the ancient world, everything was about men. Women were property to be used by men. So nobody gave a second thought to a man having a wife (s) to produce legitimate heirs, concubines for sexual pleasures and female slaves for household chores. It was a man’s world in every respect. The…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Samuel Adams on The ‘Solid and Permanent Foundation’
(QUICK READ)— “If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honor of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government,…
TESTIMONIES: Gen Zer Jaden Just Wanted Authenticity and Purpose in His Life
(5:46 VIEWING) — Jaden was in the church from his childhood, often singing and playing in front of the congregation from a very young age. He was gifted musically and opted as a teen to pursue a career in that field. One thing led to another and Jaden found himself so close, yet so far…