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.
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…
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…