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: 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…
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…