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: 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…
CONSIDER THIS: German Paleontologist Gunter Bechly’s Long Surrender to Jesus Christ
(8-MINUTE READ) — Who the heck was Gunter Bechly and why on Earth should you, a hard-working congressional aide, care what he said about anything? Well, consider these facts about the man, according to Salvo Magazine: “Günter Bechly, PhD, is a German paleontologist, senior fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, and senior…
TESTIMONIES: Dealing With Her Parents’ Divorce Ultimately Led Olivia To Jesus
(FIVE-MINUTE VIEW) — If you are presently experiencing the divorce of your parents, or you have gone though it in the past, Olivia is a young woman who has been there and knows the pain, fear, anger, hurt and alienation that so often results. In Olivia’s case, she came from a family that to all…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Are You on The ‘Wrong Side of History?’
(FOUR-MINUTE VIEW) — Karl Marx, author of The Communist Manifesto and inspirer of totalitarian regimes that have murdered hundreds of millions of human beings for no reason other than they were of the “wrong class,” claimed his philosophy was at the heart of human history. Put another way, Marx saw himself and his followers as…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Only 1 in 3 Staffers Use All Available Leave Time
(QUICK READ) — This will likely shock nobody who has ever worked as a congressional aide on Capitol Hill, but a recent CNCT Capitol Pulse staff survey found that slightly more than a third, 37 percent, of respondents take advantage of all the available time off. Working for a senator, representative or committee can…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Open Positions, New Hires, Big Promotions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: ELIZA RAMIREZ is the new National Security Adviser to Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-NM). Before moving onto the Gallego staff, Eliza served as Chief of Staff to the Assistant Administrator for Legislative and Public Affairs at USAID. She’s also worked on the staffs of Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Rep….
GOOD QUESTION: Why Would You Worship Such a Creator God?
(QUICK VIEW) — Oxford Professor John Lennox is asked why he worships a creator god who originally told him he could not eat of the tree of knowledge (referring to the Genesis 3 account of the Fall of Man), when he was quite obviously himself a man of knowledge? Lennox’ response is indicative of both…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: John Quincy Adams on the American Foundation
(QUICK READ) — No, John Quincy Adams was not a member of the Founders Generation, but he was the son of John Adams, one of the central figures in the independence movement that culminated in the Declaration of Independence and then becoming the second President of the United States, following George Washington. Both of the…