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: A Few Surprises in Hill Aides Closing Views on Biden
(THREE-MINUTE READ) — Ask congressional aides their view on an outgoing presidential administration and the responses can be expected to follow very much along partisan lines. So it is now with now-former Chief Executive Joe Biden. The overall rating of all responses (all of which are anonymous in the Capitol Pulse Surveys) was 37 percent…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: CATHERINE HAYES is now Executive Director of the GOP Doctors Caucus. Catherine comes to the caucus after 13 years with the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons, most recently as Senior Government Relations Director. Catherine is not a stranger to congressional staff roles, having first served as Legislative Correspondent…
CONTRADICTIONS: Wait a Minute! Did Jesus Lie to His Brothers?
(FIVE-MINUTE READ) — Jesus committed no sin during His 33 years on this earth, according to the Bible at, for example, II Corinthians 5:21 and Hebrews 4:15. He had to be the perfect man, the sinless sacrifice, in order to cover all the sins of those who accept Him as Lord and Savior. But hold…
HILL STAFF NEWS:
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM JOB OPENINGS: Courtesy of CNCT, the app that connects Hill staffers: Democrat Jobs Have a job available in your DEM office? Submit your job opening and let CNCT help you spread the word! House Democrat Job Bank Republican Jobs Have a job available in your GOP office? Submit your job opening and let CNCT…
QUICK TAKES: Did You Know MLK Jr. Backed Intelligent Design?
(ONE-MINUTE WATCH) — The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is known for many things, including especially his leadership of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, but there is something else about him that few Americans likely know. King was an advocate of Intelligent Design (ID), that is, the principle that the universe displays such…
TESTIMONIES: Mike Cohen’s Kryptonite Failed Him, But Not Jesus
(FOUR-MINUTE WATCH) — Mike Cohen grew up Jewish in an American society in which many Christians still shared their faith. Whenever one of them began talking to Mike about Jesus, however, he would take out his kryptonite and that would be the end of the conversation. But even kryptonite can fail and there came a…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Congressional Aides Split Down the Middle on Trump Cabinet Picks’ Confirmation Chances
(TWO-MINUTE READ) — When asked if they thought all of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees would be confirmed, a clear majority, 56 percent, of the anonymous responding Capitol Hill aides answered in the negative. But digging a little deeper into the data shows a much more schizophrenic picture. Here’s why: Of those who answered affirmatively,…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: EMMA BERGSTEDT is the new Scheduler in the office of Rep. Blake Moore (R-Utah). This is Emma’s first full-time position on a Capitol Hill congressional staff, as she previously served as an Intern in the Moore office. Emma expects to complete her undergraduate degree in April 2025 at…
CONTRADICTIONS: Are There Three Different Accounts in the Bible of Paul’s Conversion?
(TEN-MINUTE READ/WATCH) — The short answer to the question in the headline is no, there are three accounts of the conversion of Saul to Paul on the road to Damascus but, as the following 8:58 video from Inspiring Philosophy demonstrates, they are not contradictions, contrary to a host of critics of the Bible. Paul’s conversion…