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.
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: George Washington on Why Religious Liberty led him to Fight
(QUICK READ) — “The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field — the object is attained — and it now remains to be my earnest wish & prayer, that the Citizens of the United States could make a wise and virtuous use of the blessings placed before…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Congressional Aides Deeply Split on Best Streaming Service
What is the best of the multiple streaming services out there? CNCT Capitol Pulse recently asked and, judging by the legions of congressional aides who responded, there is clearly a major split in the ranks of Hill aides! Netflix was the top choice, selected by 38 percent of the respondents, followed by Disney + Hulu…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is Intelligent Design (ID) Actually Science?
(6:28 WATCH) — You are walking along on Pennsylvania Avenue SE heading to the shops and bars at noon when you look down, fortunately just in time to avoid stepping on a beautiful watch lying there. Somebody must have dropped it, so that explains how it got there. But how did it come to be? There…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Open Positions, New Hires, Job Promotions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: DAVID SEYFERTH returns to the Hill after a seven-year absence, taking over duties as Legislative Assistant to Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-CT). Previously, David filled filled arious positions within USAID, most recently as Humanitarian Adviser. He is a 2015 graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School…
SCIENCE AND FAITH: Why Cosmic Background Radiation Demonstrates the Universe had a Beginning
By J. Warner Wallace (FOUR-MINUTE READ) — In 1964, two American physicists and radio astronomers, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, made an important discovery. They were unable to eliminate the radio signal “noise” from their large antenna at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey, regardless of where in the universe they tried to point…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Charles Carroll on a Republic’s Need for Christian Morals
(QUICK READ) — “Without morals, a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure, [and] which denounces against the wicked eternal misery, and [which] insured to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for…
TESTIMONIES: She Found Messiah After Trying to Disprove Him
Joan grew up in Southern California, the daughter of Orthodox Jewish parents. She visited Israel with them as a child and her identity was the anchor of her life when she headed off to college. A Christian roommate and her boyfriend often witnessed to Joan, but instead of being open to their witnessing, she declared…
MIRACLES BY DESIGN: You Don’t Get Monarch Butterflies by Chance
(28 MINUTE VIEWING) — If you’ve ever seen a Monarch butterfly fluttering around your yard in the Spring, odds are good you gave it a momentary look, perhaps remarked on its unmistakeable beauty, then went about the business of your day. But, as Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Dr. Paul Nelson explains in the following 28:35…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Hill GOPers More Likely than Dems to Use AI at Work
Everybody it seems is talking these days about Artificial Intelligence (AI), and whether it can usher in a new golden age of human achievement or provide aspiring totalitarians with a tool of control of which Stalin and Chairman Mao could only dream. Congressional staffers are talking about AI, too, and, according to the results of…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Did Jesus Really Exist?
(3:21 VIDEO) — This may come as a shock to some readers but there are actually skeptics out there who claim Jesus never really existed as a living human being. They contend Jesus is a mythical figure, not unlike Zeus or Apollo of the pagan mythologies. But is that a reasonable conclusion based upon the…