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: EMILY BENAVIDES returns to Capitol Hill after a two-year absence to assume duties as Chief of Staff for Rep. Bob Latta (R-Ohio). Previously, Emily was Communications Director for Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. Emily is a 2010 graduate of Johns…
SECRETS OF THE CELL (Episode 3): Check Out the Wondrously Precise and Purposeful Machinery in Nature
Ever hear of the tiny bug named the “Plant Hopper”? Probably not, but the Plant Hopper has an amazing ability to leap multiple feet with great precision. Multiple feet doesn’t sound like much until you realize how small is the Plant Hopper. One might even be tempted to describe this ability as miraculous. Miracle or…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Bible Verse Inscribed on the Liberty Bell
“Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.” — Leviticus 25:10, Inscription on the Liberty Bell. Quotes reprinted in HillFaith’s “The Faith of The Founders” posts are compiled from Benjamin F. Morris’ classic work, “The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States.” Morris, an historian and pastor, published the first…
TESTIMONIES: NASA Engineer Dr. Michael Houts’ Knowledge of Nuclear Science Led Him to Jesus
(NINE-MINUTE WATCH) — When Dr. Michael Houts college roommate showed him a paragraph declaring the material world is all there is to reality and that all living things came to be according to the evolutionary principal of natural selection, his immediate thought was “well, of course, that’s all true.” The paragraph concluded with the statement…
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…