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.
EASTER ISSUES 2026: Two Archeological Finds Confirm Bible’s Description of Pontius Pilate
(856 WORDS) — In his just-released masterpiece entitled “The Jesus Discoveries: 10 Historic Finds That Bring Us Face-to-Face With Jesus,” Dr. Jeremiah Johnston of christianthinkers.com shares a revealing vignette from 1840 involving Karl Marx and his tutor, Professor Bruno Bauer. Marx was then 22-years old and an atheist working on a dissertation focused on religion….
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Most Americans’ Ethics and Morality Get Low Marks Among Staffers
QUICK READ — Well, here’s something on which significant portions of Republican and Democrat staff aides on Capitol Hill agree – 10 percent of the respondents from each of the two major political parties agreed that the morals of the American people are “very bad.” Overall, however, aides representing the two parties diverged a great…
HILL STAFF NEWS: You May Find Your Next Staff Job Here
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM DAKOTA GORDON – Has come a long way from the little town of Coleman, Oklahoma, taking over as Press Assistant/Legislative Correspondent for Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI). Dakota comes to the Hill from the Michigan state legislature in Lansing where he was Media Liaison and Communications Adviser for GOP…
MYTH-BUSTERS: You Have No Idea How Finely Tuned Is Our Universe
(6:22 VIEWING) — Imagine you are walking along and a sign suddenly appears telling you that if you take one more step forward, you will instantly disappear into nothingness. And the same sign further informs you that taking one step backward will have the same result. That’s kind of how we humans are in this…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: John Jay’s Thankful Last Will and Testament
(QUICK READ) — John Jay was one of the authors, with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, of The Federalist Papers, which was absolutely essential to the successful effort to secure approval of the then-proposed Constitution by New York and Virginia. Without either of those states, the Constitution would likely have failed to gain adoption. Jay…
CONSIDER THIS: Second ‘Why Israel Matters’ Seminar for Hill Aides Convenes This Wednesday
(572 WORDS) — Dr. Susan Michaels, USA President of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) and Director of American Christian Leaders for Israel, is the featured speaker for the second of five scheduled “Why Israel Matters” seminars for congressional aides and interns. The seminars are hosted on Capitol Hill at the Faith & Liberty Ministry…
TESTIMONIES: Philosophy Professor, Author Nancy Pearcey Was An Agnostic …
(11:59 VIDEO) — Dr. Nancy Pearcey, is, according to The Economist, “America’s pre-eminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual.” But, as she explains in the following interview with Aspiring Christian host Dr. Jana Harmon, it wasn’t always that way. In fact, Pearcey grew up as an agnostic who believed whatever makes you feel good is your truth….
HILL STAFF VIEWS: NFL’s Anti-Trust Exemption Could Be In Serious Jeopardy
(QUICK READ) — National Football League (NFL) Commissioner Roger Goodell, are you listening? A majority, 53 percent, of congressional aides responding to a recent CNCT Capitol Pulse survey said they agree Congress should reconsider the organization’s anti-trust exemption. Among Democratic aides, 64 percent of those responding said yes, the NFL’s anti-trust exemption should be reconsidered, compared…
HILL STAFF NEWS: You May Find Your Next Job Here
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM JAMES WHITAKER makes the move from serving as General Counsel for the House Education and the Workforce Committee under Chairman Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) to Chief Counsel for the House Financial Services Committee under Chairman Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.). James is a 2017 graduate of the University of…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: John Hancock and the Proclamation of March 4, 1793
(QUICK READ) — Measured by its physical size, John Hancock’s signature on the Declaration of Independence was the most prominent among the 56 signers of the document that first proclaimed America’s separation from Great Britain. But that prominence was by no means Hancock’s sole contribution to the revolutionary cause and to the establishment and securing…