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: ANDREW BAMBRICK is the new Legislative Assistant in the office of Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wisc.). Previously, Andrew worked for Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) as a Legislative Assistant on the House Natural Resources Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Andrew is a 2019 BA in Government graduate of Patrick…
Here’s What Marriage is All About: Matthew West on ‘Growing Up and Growing Old’
Here are the lyrics: verse I can′t forget the way Your hand fit in my hand A single touch, but something just felt right pre-chorus Little did I know My heart decided then I would spend the rest of my one life chorus Growin’ up and growin′ old With a heart to love and a…
CONSIDER THIS: Debating if Near-Death Experiences Prove the After-Life
(36-MINUTE VIEWING) — Put two highly intelligent and experienced individuals together with Piers Morgan in front of the cameras to discuss whether near-death experiences provide evidence that humans have an afterlife, and the result is a deeply fascinating discussion. Dr. Michael Eignor is a veteran neurosurgeon, who began his career as an atheist, but subsequently…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: John Quincy Adams’ ‘Three Points of Doctrine’
(QUICK READ)— “There are three points of doctrine, the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of a God; the second is the immortality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards and punishments. “Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either…
TESTIMONIES: Jeanne Describes How Jesus Set Her Free of Abortion Guilt
(3:34 VIEWING) — Millions of American women, often at the insistence or with the active assistance of a man, have terminated a pregnancy through abortion. That’s actually the least accurate way of describing abortion — it is in fact the purposeful killing of a living, but as yet unborn, infant human being. We humans are…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: 80 Percent of Congressional Aides Say There’s an Epstein Cover-up
(QUICK READ) — It’s a rare phenomenon when 80 percent or more of congressional aides agree on one of the most prominent and controversial issues facing the nation, but the latest CNCT Capitol Pulse reveals just such an example. Fully 80 percent of the anonymous congressional aides responding when asked if they believe there is…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is Standing for Religious Freedom Just a Way to Protect Privilege?
(FIVE-MINUTE VIEWING) — If you’ve worked on Capitol Hill very long at all, you’ve realized that what some people say when asked why they are talking to their elected representatives isn’t their actual motivation. So what about people lobbying on the Hill to protect religious freedom? Are their motivations in proclaiming the importance of religious…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Open Positions, New Hires, Big Promotions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: JEFF GERTZ takes over as Staff Director for the Senate Democratic Strategic Communications Committee, following his four-year tenure as Senior Adviser/Communications Director for Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ). Jeff is a 2005 BA graduate of the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) in History and Political Science. SARAH ROSNICK…
MYTHS & MISCHIEF: Is Jesus Just a Copy of Ancient Myths? Or the Fulfillment of Them All?
(9-MINUTE VIEWING) — J. Warner Wallace knows a thing or three about evaluating the value, accuracy and credibility of evidence, thanks to his three decades of solving as a Los Angeles Police detective the toughest cold murder cases that had gone unsolved for years. Wallace was so good at solving such cases that for years…
FAITH OF AMERICA’S FOUNDERS: John Hancock Tells Continental Congress to Pray on a Dark Day of Our Revolution
(QUICK READ) — “In circumstances as dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that whilst every prudent measure should be taken to ward off the impending judgments … at the same time, all confidence must be withheld from the means we use; and reposed only on that God rules in…