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: Who Ya Gonna Believe About Yourself, the World or Your Creator?
(TWO-MINUTE LISTEN) — If that title above sounds like a bit of click-bait rhetoric on a post that really doesn’t any real substance or relevance for you as a congressional aide working on Capitol Hill, let me assure you Joe Stan never appears on HillFaith just to be you to click on something. Joe is…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Alexander Hamilton on Christianity as Civilization’s Key Vs the Horrors of the French Revolution
(QUICK READ) — How clearly is it proved by this that the praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped of half its horrors. The French renounce Christianity, and they relapse into barbarism—war resumes the same hideous and savage form…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: More Democratic Aides Say Harder to Advance Congressional Career Than Do GOPers
Nearly half of all the Democratic congressional aides responding to this recent CNCT Capitol Pulse Survey said they find “High Difficulty” in advancing their careers working on the Hill. Only 25 percent of the GOP aides gave the same response. As for whether it’s harder to advance as a Senate or a House aide, 35…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: PARKER BOGGS is the person you want to see if you have any scheduling questions involving Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.). Parker previously was an Intern for Rep. Carol Miller (R-Wisc.). He is a 2024 James Madison University graduate with a BA in Political Science and a BS in…
SECRETS OF THE CELL (Episode 5): Purposeful Intelligence is the X Factor That Accounts for Life
(8:51 WATCH) – There is a well-known claim among evolutionary materialists that, given enough time, random mutation and natural selection will explain every thing about how life originated on Earth and elsewhere else. Even though it’s based upon chance combinations, given billions and billions of years, nobody should doubt that there is a direct line…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: A Massachusetts Declaration
(30-SECOND READ) — “It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society, publicly and at stated seasons, to worship the Supreme Being, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping God in the…
CONSIDER THIS: Harvard/Tufts Biology Prof Says Goodbye to ‘Physicalism’
By Daniel Witt There’s a pattern you notice in science writing. Whenever a scientist is positing something he thinks is really far-out or paradigm-shaking, there will come a place in his writing when he stops and clarifies that he is not, of course, trying to cross The Line. He is not (of course!) saying that…
MORNING JOE STAN: Two Boys, a Lost Lamp and a Dark Mine
(QUICK WATCH) — It’s 1915 and two young boys in North Carolina out exploring come upon the entrance to a cave. Being boys, they of course go into the cave and begin following it deeper and deeper into the Earth. Suddenly, the boy carrying the only lamp they have drops it and the light goes…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Trump Joint Session Address Got Mixed Reviews From Congressional Aides
(QUICK READ!) — Three quarters of the American people were quite impressed by President Donald Trump’s Tuesday night address to a joint session of Congress, but aides working for senators, representatives and congressional committees were far less impressed. Overall, 45 percent of respondents to this CNCT Capitol Pulse survey taken in the hours after the…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is Intelligent Design Science or Religion?
(SEVEN-MINUTE WATCH) — It may be the most frequently heard objection to the Intelligent Design (ID) school of thought regarding the origin of the universe and of life on this Earth – “ID is not science, it’s religion masquerading as science.” That objection is often offered along with another closely related one – “ID is…