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: SALONI SHARMA moves into the Communications Director slot working for Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee Ranking Member Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Previously, Saloni was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Adviser for Communications in the Biden administration. She earned her BA from the Georgia Institute…
SECRETS OF THE CELL: Someone Must Have The Answer! (Episode 1)
(FOUR-MINUTE WATCH) — No matter where we look in the modern world, we see machines. All kinds of man-made machines that do wondrous things to improve the quality of our lives, give us more time for rest and relaxation, and provide opportunities unmatched in human history. Check out this photo of biochemist and best-selling author…
FAITH OF AMERICA’S FOUNDERS: Alexander Hamilton Says Our Rights Are From God Alone
(30-SECOND READ) — “The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.” – Alexander Hamilton. Compiled…
TESTIMONIES: Tom Knew All About Jesus But He Didn’t Want to Follow Him
(EIGHT AND A HALF MINUTE WATCH) — Tom grew up in a good home and spent a lot of time in church as a child, so he knew all the “Christian lingo,” he just didn’t want it to apply to him. So as soon as he could get away from home and live his own…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Most Congressional Aides Say Drug Cartels Are Terrorist Organizations
(TWO-MINUTE READ) — Three of every four of the congressional aides responding anonymously to the recent CNCT Capitol Pulse survey agree that Mexican Drug Cartels should be classified by the U.S. government as terrorist organizations. The results were almost unanimous among Republican aides, with 92 percent of them answering the affirmative. Only 48 percent of…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nevada) has a new Senior Adviser for Foreign Policy and National Security issues and her name is LIZ LIEBOWITZ. Before joining the Nevada Democrat’s senatorial staff, Liz was Senior Director for U.S. Government Relations for the ONE Campaign. She earned her MPH in Public Health…
CONTRADICTIONS: What About Alleged Discrepancies In The Four Gospels?
(FOUR-MINUTE VIEW) — There may be no greater mistake when working on Capitol Hill than including a contradiction of logic or fact in a one-pager making the case for a legislative proposal, composing a position paper on a bill scheduled for a vote on the floor, or drafting remarks for your boss when she speaks…
FAITH OF AMERICA’S FOUNDERS: James Madison and the All-Powerful, Essential God
(QUICK READ) — “The belief in a God who is All-Powerful, wise, and good is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources.” – James Madison. Compiled by MARK STRAND. Quotes reprinted in HillFaith’s “The Faith…
TESTIMONIES: Violet Williams Had It Made. Then Jesus Said ‘Quit Your Job’
(FIVE-MINUTE VIEW) — Violet Williams completed her education with multiple advanced degrees in industrial engineering, then began a steady climb up the corporate ladder working in the automobile industry. “Every day is a new adventure and a new battle. I love seeing the cars roll off the assembly line,” she declares in the following 3:54…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Should Home-Schooling Be Banned?
America’s public school system has steadily declined in academic achievement compared to the rest of the world in most years for several decades, with a result that a growing percentage of American families are choosing to home-school. Even so, public education administrator and teacher union leaders, as well as academic education department authorities and non-profit…