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 VIEWS: Where Do You Get Your News?
With an average age of 27 for congressional staffers, one might reasonably expect to see “Social Media” or maybe “Podcasts” topping the results of the CNCT Capitol Pulse question of “What is your primary source of news.” But one can reasonably expect a certain response and still get it wrong. Such is the case with…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: What Four D.C. Memorials Tell Us
(8:20 WATCH) — Whenever the nation’s capital is a topic of conversation, the focus is almost certainly on politics, or the grandeur of the Capitol, or the wealth of historically significant places to visit throughout the metropolitan area. What is likely rarely, if ever, a topic of such conversation is the role of Intelligent Design…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: MATT FISHER has moved into the Communications Director slot on the personal staff of Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.). Matt comes back to the Hill after a two-year absence, having previously served as Press Secretary for Rep. Brian Mast (R-Wis.). Matt is a 2020 graduate of Hillsdale College with…
SECRETS OF THE CELL(Part 2): What Do Your Body’s Cells Have in Common With Your Car’s Engine?
(FIVE-MINUTE WATCH) — If you know about automobile engines, you know they consist of hundreds of parts, the vast majority of which are essential to the proper functioning of the whole unit so that it can do what it was designed to do – Move you from Point A to Point B. To cite just…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Benjamin Franklin on the Constitutional Convention
(THIRTY SECOND READ) — “I am not to be understood to infer that our General Convention was divinely inspired when it formed the federal Constitution, yet I must own that I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence, that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such importance to…
TESTIMONIES: Watch This And Then Ask Yourself How It Could Happen Apart From a Miracle
(10-MINUTE WATCH) — Pastor Marc Maro was on the treadmill early one morning when suddenly he was on the floor, the paramedics struggled for half an hour to restart his heart, and then he was in the hospital and the doctors were not at all optimistic. Then there was a …. miracle. If you don’t…
INTELLIGENT DESIGN: The Amazing Emperor Penguin of Antarctica
(EIGHT:THIRTY WATCH) — Imagine yourself dropped into an environment in which the daily high temperature rarely gets above zero (in January, the “summer,” it reaches about 20 degrees) and can plunge to -144 degrees at night. But that’s not all to this frigid environment. The winds blow virtually all the time, often reaching hurricane velocities….
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Most Congressional Aides View Religion as ‘Very Important’
(TWO-MINUTE READ) — This may come as a totally unexpected shock for many, but check out the latest CNCT Capitol Pulse survey results that show 55 percent of all the anonymous responders claim religion is “Very Important” in their lives. I have to confess to being surprised by that result, as I’ve long thought the…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? To Somebody Who Is ‘Deconstructing’ Their Christian Faith?
(FIVE-THIRTY WATCH) — “Deconstruction.” It’s a term that, if you haven’t already heard it said by somebody, odds are good you will in the near future because it’s becoming trendy. What it means is essentially this: Asking questions about what you believe about your eternal future and why. There is a “Deconstruction movement” in some…
QUICK TAKES: Why ‘SURGE’ Explains How The Universe Began
(TWO-MINUTE WATCH) — Did you ever wonder how everything that is came to be? Why is there this huge round ball we call Earth? How all those twinkly things we see up in the night sky got there? Of course you have, if you are honest with yourself. Well, you are in luck today because…