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.
TESTIMONIES: Atheist Richard Dawkins’ ‘Right-Hand Man’ Finds Christ
(16-MINUTE VIEWING) — Josh Timonen spent a significant portion of his adult life as a key assistant to world-renowned atheism advocate Richard Dawkins. But more recently, Josh discovered that Jesus Christ is exactly who He said He is. Josh can take it from here because nobody can tell his story better than he does:
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!
HillFaith is relaxing on the beach for a few days. Enjoy this great holiday on the 249th birthday of our America.
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Thomas Jefferson on the God Who Gave Us Life, Liberty
(QUICK READ) — “A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. … The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.” – Thomas Jefferson. Cited by Mark…
TESTIMONIES: This Neurosurgeon’s Work on Human Brains Led Him to Christ
(10:24 VIEWING) — Dr. Michael Egnor grew up in a “non-religious home,” so he didn’t have the benefit of being exposed at an early age to the claims of Jesus Christ to be the Way, the Truth and the Life, nor His claim to have been resurrected from the dead. He was an atheist and…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: 85 Percent of Hill Aides View Social Media as ‘Net Negative’
(QUICK READ) — In what may well be the least expected survey results of 2025, fully 85 percent of the congressional aides anonymously responding to a recent CNCT Capitol Pulse poll agreed that social media is a “Net Negative.” Yes, you read that correctly – 85 percent! We hear a lot these days about 80-20…
HILL STAFF JOB NEWS: Open Positions, New Hires, Big Promotions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: NICK ALEXANDER moves over from being Legislative Correspondent for Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Ak) to Legislative Assistant for Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky). Nick received his BBA in Accounting and Finance in 2018 from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2022. WILL SIMPSON is the new Chief Counsel to Sen….
THE FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: George Washington on ‘That Being Who is Powerful to Save’
(QUICK READ) — “May that Being, who is powerful to save, and in whose hands is the fate of nations, look down with an eye of tender pity and compassion upon the whole of the United Colonies; may He continue to smile upon their counsels and arms, and crown them with success, whilst employed in…
TESTIMONIES: God Told Josh It Was Time to Put Down the Booze and Be a Man
(6:09 VIEWING) — Josh Clendening found a temporary peace and relief from a seriously dysfunctional home life when he started drinking as a young teen. Like so many other young men and women, it was that false sense of escape that launched him down the path so familiar to recovering alcoholics. Josh drank and partied…
EXPLAIN THIS: Eight Characteristics of Intelligent Design
(10-MINUTE VIEWING) — There is a classic illustration in philosophy of Intelligent Design (ID) to infer the existence of God. William Paley, a 19th century English philosopher pointed out that if you are walking along in a field and come upon a watch lying on the ground, you reasonably assume that the watch was assembled…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Should You Believe The Four Gospels of the New Testament?
(5:12 VIEWING) — Young Americans, including Gen Zers and Millennials, who engage in regular reading of the Bible report higher levels of personal happiness and individual flourishing, according to the latest survey of the American Bible Society (ABS). Here’s a significant couple of findings in the ABS summary of its latest findings on human flourishing…