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.
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is Sports Gambling Really Just Harmless Fun?
(SIX-MINUTE VIDEO) — Sports betting was legalized in most states earlier in this decade and in the years since, it has exploded as millions of mostly men take advantage of the instant access afforded by the Internet and cell phone. Long gone are the days when betting on NFL games, or major baseball contests, or…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Do We Have This Kind of Courage Today?
(QUICK READ) — Faith of the Founders is a regular Tuesday feature on HillFaith.org, but we were so impressed with the iron firmness of this declaration by Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson issued a year before the Declaration of Independence that we are sharing it here today: “With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Open Positions, New Hires, Job Promotions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: SAIF KHAN is the new Senior Adviser on the bipartisan staff of the House Select Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party Committee. Saif received his law degree in 2010 from Ohio State University, his MA in Physics in 2007 from Wayne State University…
CONSIDER THIS: How Rainbows and the Archer’s Weapon Are Connected
A vivid rainbow shortly after a storm passes through can be a beautiful and even inspiring experience, both because of it’s sheer uniqueness and its ancient symbolic power, as told in the Bible at Genesis 9:12-17. They usually aren’t visible for long but they remain in our memories long after they vanish from sight. And…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Why Jefferson Would ‘Tremble for my Country’
(QUICK READ) — “And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Is This the Single Most Powerful Word in Scripture?
(SHORT VIDEO) — It’s not where you might have assume it to be, such as David defeating Goliath or maybe the day of Pentecost when 3,000 men and women heard Peter’s sermon and became followers of Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. No, this one word, this most powerful word in all of Scripture,…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Three-Quarters of All Hill Staff Back Social Media Ban for Minors
(QUICK READ) — There aren’t many issues on which big, bipartisan majorities of congressional staffers are united, but that changes big-time when it comes to proposals to ban minors from access to social media. Fully 70 percent of aides responding to a recent CNCT Capitol Pulse survey said they back such proposals. Breaking out the…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Should You Trust the Bible as God’s Word?
(5:35 VIEWING) – It is, according to the Guinness World Records folks, the most-read book ever written, with an estimated 5-7 billion copies having been printed and distributed. Even more significant is the fact the Bible is not a one-time reader, a work people read through once, maybe twice, then put it on the bookshelf…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Open Positions, New Hires, Job Promotions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: RAMON CORREA takes over as Legislative Director for Rep. Kwesi Mfume (D-Md.). Previously, Ramon served as Oversight Director for the Department of Agriculture’s Office of Congressional Relations. Ramon is a Hill veteran, having served in multiple positions beginning in 2014 as a Legislative Fellow in the office of…
MORNING JOE STAN: Does Your LifeGuard Walk on Water?
(THREE-MINUTE VIEWING) — Did you know that most whales die by drowning? If that sounds counter-intuitive since, as everybody with a functioning brain knows, those magnificent creatures literally live in the ocean, then you are absolutely right. But, as Joe Stan points out in the following 3:00 video, whales lack the ability to draw oxygen…