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: NFL’s Anti-Trust Exemption Could Be In Serious Jeopardy
(QUICK READ) — National Football League (NFL) Commissioner Roger Goodell, are you listening? A majority, 53 percent, of congressional aides responding to a recent CNCT Capitol Pulse survey said they agree Congress should reconsider the organization’s anti-trust exemption. Among Democratic aides, 64 percent of those responding said yes, the NFL’s anti-trust exemption should be reconsidered, compared…
HILL STAFF NEWS: You May Find Your Next Job Here
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM JAMES WHITAKER makes the move from serving as General Counsel for the House Education and the Workforce Committee under Chairman Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) to Chief Counsel for the House Financial Services Committee under Chairman Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.). James is a 2017 graduate of the University of…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: John Hancock and the Proclamation of March 4, 1793
(QUICK READ) — Measured by its physical size, John Hancock’s signature on the Declaration of Independence was the most prominent among the 56 signers of the document that first proclaimed America’s separation from Great Britain. But that prominence was by no means Hancock’s sole contribution to the revolutionary cause and to the establishment and securing…
AMANDA REPORTS: Married Parents Are Crucial For Productive, Peaceful Societies
(641 WORDS) — Married parents represent a small percentage of resilient U.S. families, yet remain indispensable for healthy society, research conducted by the Barna Group shows. “Three Research Insights on Resilient Families,” a report compiled by the Fort Worth, Texas-based Barna Group, indicates most strong families regularly practice repair rather than avoidance, seek familial support…
THIS IS HUGE! Iran Is No Longer Muslim As Millions Turn to Christ
(44:50 VIEWING) — Dr. Hormoz Shariat has been called “Iran’s Billy Graham,” thanks to his passion for sharing the Gospel with his fellow Iranians and for being one of the growing millions of his countrymen who are leaving behind Islamism to follow Jesus Christ. The story of how he came as a young and intensely…
Standing Room Only for Museum of the Bible’s Dead Sea Scrolls Hill Event
(QUICK READ) — All of the chairs were taken and people were standing on March 4 when the Museum of the Bible (MTOB) hosted senior congressional staffers for lunch and a lecture in the U.S. Capitol by one of the world’s top experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls. They were gathered to hear Dr. Robert…
HILL STAFF NEWS: You May Find Your Next Job Here
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM KIT WENDTLAND moves into his first-ever job on Capitol Hill, in the Policy Adviser position on the personal staff of Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wy.). Previously, Kit was In-House Counsel/Tribal Relations Policy Supervisor for Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon. Kit is a 2019 graduate of the University of Wyoming College…
BRET BERNHARDT: So, Your Boss is Retiring, Defeated, Joining the President’s Cabinet …
(832 WORDS) — Last week, President Donald Trump said he plans to nominate Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) to serve as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). If you work for Senator Mullin, or a Member in an analogous situation such as an unexpected retirement announcement, this is very relevant to you. You’re happy…
TESTIMONIES: Yoga Was Cara Seymour’s Salvation Until It Failed Her
(10:56 VIEWING) — For unhappy devotees of Yoga, you can never do too much. In fact, as former Yoga leader Cara Seymour learned, if your life isn’t what you want, you are the problem because you aren’t doing enough of the exercises the right way. “From the outside, my life looked pretty good. I had…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Jefferson Thanks Virginia Baptists on Freedom of Religion
(QUICK READ) — Most congressional aides, like the vast majority of Americans in general these days, are unaware of the prominent role played in the founding of this nation by the various Christian churches from before the Revolution, throughout the War for Independence and on into the writing of the Constitution. In 1808, as the…