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.
STAFF NEWS: Open Positions, New Hires, Job Promotions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: BLAINE HERGENROTHER is now the Personal Aide to Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) after serving as an Intern in the same office. Blaine is a 2025 graduate of Mount Vernon Nazarene University with a BA in History. JOHANNA CONTRARES is District Director and Deputy Chief of Staff for Rep….
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is Jesus God?
(FOUR-MINUTE WATCH) — If the answer to the question in the headline above seems obvious, then either you are already a follower of Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior because you are convinced that He is in fact God. Or you are one of the many people who reject that claim — which Jesus…
Where Has HillFaith Been???
As you can see to the left of this post, HillFaith is back after an unexplained silence since April 29. What happened? The simple answer is this: I started a new job — Senior Congressional Analyst for The Washington Stand, published by the Family Research Council (FRC). And, as is typically the case in any…
CONSIDER THIS: Is There Actually a World-Wide Resurgence of Belief in God?
(35-MINUTE WATCH) — Have you noticed? When was the last time you saw one of the stars of the New Atheists movement in the headlines with their familiarly skeptical debunking of the Bible, Jesus Christ and Christianity? Sadly, Christopher Hitchens passed away in 2011 and folks like Richard Dawkins don’t seem nearly as prominent in…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: John Adams on Liberty as the Gift of God
(ONE-MINUTE READ) — John Adams of Massachusetts was among the most prominent members of the Revolutionary generation, having led the editing process that produced the Declaration of Independence first drafted by Thomas Jefferson. After the Constitution was adopted, Adams followed George Washington to become the second President of the United States. But he was a…
TESTIMONIES: This Man Wanted the Truth About Jesus No Matter What It Cost Him
(EIGHT MINUTES, 32 SECOND VIDEO) — Israel Isus was born and raised in Morocco of an Orthodox Jewish family, but when the first Lebanon War broke out, he joined the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). Some of the horrors he witnessed in that time caused him to wonder what difference it made for the Jews to…
MORNING JOE STAN: One Smile Can Save A Life
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FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Samuel Adams on the Crucial Importance of Faith
(1:30-SECOND READ) — Samuel Adams is best known, where he is known at all among the general populace of Americans these days, as one of the earliest proponents of the American Revolution against England’s King George III. Adams was a founder of the Sons of Liberty group, but he was much more than a mere…
BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW: George Washington Carver Viewed Creation Through Intelligent Design Lenses
If the name “George Washington Carver” seems to ring a bell somewhere back there in your memory but you can’t quite place it, he was one of the mostly unsung early heroes of the the civil rights movement in America. Though born into slavery, Carver was nothing less than a genius. This remarkable man viewed…
EASTER ISSUES 2025: He Is Risen! (Really? How Do We Know?)
Today is Easter Sunday and in this holiday, we celebrate what must be the single most important event in the entire history of mankind … or the most disreputable intellectual and spiritual scam of all time. That is the essential reality about the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Either it really happened, which means He is…