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.
MORNING JOE STAN: Isn’t It Time You Put Those Rocks Down?
(THIRTY-SEVEN SECONDS WATCH) — Years ago and very early in my recovery of sobriety, I heard somebody at an AA meeting talk about the importance of “dropping the rocks” of guilt, shame and regret about our past actions as a result of addiction. That is such an important lesson for anybody struggling with additions to…
EASTER ISSUES 2025: Critic Velkyn1 Takes HillFaith Video to Task, Tapscott Responds
Editor’s Note to Readers: The following exchange first appeared in the comment section of HillFaith’s YouTube Channel regarding the short video “What is a Kustodia.” Velkyn1 is a familiar critic of this editor’s writing elsewhere regarding spiritual issues, particularly when they appear on Instapundit. His comments appear below in bold red italic, while mine are…
EASTER ISSUES 2025: What It Was Like To Be Crucified
(SIX-MINUTE WATCH) — It’s easy during the Easter season to focus entirely on the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the tomb three days after His death. But the manner of His death, by Roman crucifixion following multiple rigged trials before the Jewish and Roman authorities, is immensely important as well. In the following 5:34 second…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: MICHAEL J “MIKE’ GWIN returns to Capitol Hill as Communications Director for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) after serving in various capacities throughout President Joe Biden’s tenure in the Oval Office, most recently as Principle Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs. Mike is no stranger…
EASTER ISSUES 2026: Think You Could Take Out an Elite Roman Legion SEAL Team And Steal The Dead Body of Jesus?
(Two-Minute Read/View) — Okay, there were no Navy Seals around at the time the lifeless, crucified body of Jesus Christ was laid in a tomb chipped out of a rock-hard boulder and behind the big stone with the Seal of Rome that was intended to close it forever. But there were guards, almost certainly a…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Political Figures Most Often Cited Christian Sources
(THREE-MINUTE READ) — Political thinkers among the Founders were prolific in their writing, producing 916 books, monographs, pamphlets and newspaper articles between 1760 and 1805, the period of their greatest impact,. That is according to Dr. Archie P. Jones, author of “The Influence of Historic Christianity on Early America,” who did an analysis of the…
EASTER ISSUES 2025: Is The Resurrection Of Jesus Christ Fact Or Fiction?
(7 MINUTE WATCH) — Easter is a mere 13 days away and the issue that makes this holiday the most important in all of human history remains – No reputable scholar questions the fact that Jesus was crucified dead and buried. But even today, despite rising mountains of evidence, there are skeptics who question whether…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? Did Christians Steal Jesus’ Resurrection Story From Pagan Myths?
There was a time during the 19th and into the early 20th centuries when scholars associated with the German School of Higher Criticism argued that Christians “borrowed” their claims about Jesus being resurrected from multiple pagan myths of heroes returning from the Dead. Scholarship beginning in the late 20th and into the 21st century, however,…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: PETER SEIFERT moves to to the Legislative Correspondent position in the office of Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.). Previously, Peter was Staff Assistant in the Buchanan operation. Peter is a 2023 graduate of Sewanee — The University of the South with a BA in Political Science. ALLY TRIOLI comes…