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 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…
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…