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 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…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: God and ‘The Federalist Papers’ Authors
(FOUR-MINUTE READ) — America’s Constitution, as written in 1787 by the Framers, nowhere required anybody to accept the divinity of Christ, but it clearly presumed the moral, political (especially individual liberty and separation of powers) and civilizational values of Christianity. Let’s look at the views of the three authors of “The Federalist Papers”, the universally…
MYTH-BUSTERS: ‘The American Miracle: Our Nation is No Accident’
(TWO-MINUTE READ) — There are repeated evidences throughout the Old Testament of God working providentially in human history, but what about in the modern era? Did God just decide to take the Deist route and let mankind go its own way? That’s an especially relevant question in America because so many secular historians have emphasized…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Aides Discuss Faith Issues in 52 Percent of Hill Offices
(ONE-MINUTE READ) — A little more than half of all congressional aides responding to a recent CNCT Capitol Pulse survey said religious faith issues are discussed — either “yes, often” or “yes, sometimes” — among staffers in their Hill offices. Among the 23 percent who answered “yes, often,” the respondents included 33 percent of the…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: PAMELA LARKIN takes over as Communications Director for Rep. Rick Larsen (D-Wash.) following a stint with the same duties in the Larsen election campaign of 2024. Prior to the campaign trail, Pamela was Senior Manager for Strategy of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Democracy Program. Pamela is a 2019…
SECRETS OF THE CELL (Episode 6): Meet Bacteria, the Superheroes of the Microbial World
(18-MINUTE VIEWING) — Bacteria is bad, right? That’s the stuff that makes people sick. When we say we want to clean up an area like, say, the food preparation countertop of your kitchen, you don’t want to have billions of destructive microscopic bacteria swimming around right where you are slicing chicken. But what if there…
CONTRADICTIONS: Three Of The Most Common Mistakes Bible Skeptics Make
(FOUR-MINUTE READ) — Skeptics of the divine origin of the Old and New Testaments that make up the Bible, the most widely read and bought book in human history, share a number of characteristics in addition to their skepticism. Dr. Norman Geisler is among the theological giants of the day. While he passed away in…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Why Malden, Massachusetts Insisted on a Republic Under God
(QUICK READ) — [“W]e are confirmed in the opinion, that the present age would be deficient in their duty to God, their posterity and themselves if they do not establish an American republic. “This is the only form of government we wish to see established; for we can never be willingly subject to any other…
MYTHS & MISCHIEF: Are You Good Enough to go to Heaven?
(TWO-MINUTE VIEWING) — Think being “good” is enough to get you into Heaven? You are far from alone if that is what you think. There are endless variations on this basic theme that we human beings use to rationalize the reality that all of us, in the words of Romans 3:23 “have sinned and fallen…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: NICOLE CAO just began work in her first position on a congressional staffer, serving as a Staff Assistant in the office of Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.). Nicole is currently completing her work on a MA in Public Administration at Georgetown University. Previously, she graduated from the University of…