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: DOGE Draws Mixed Reviews Among Hill Aides
(ONE-MINUTE READ) — Republican staffers, especially those in the Senior Policy Staff ranks, are enthusiastic about President-elect Donald Trump’s announced plan to have Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy head a newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for the purpose of eliminating as much as $2 Trillion in federal spending. Fully 81 percent of the…
TESTIMONIES: 25 Years Later Radical Muslim-Turned-Christian Meets Man He Thought He Killed
(EIGHT-MINUTE WATCH) – The following 8:17 testimony is made available by One for Israel. This Sudanese man was raised in one of the world’s strictest Islamic tribes. And he wanted to kill Christians and Jews. I would tell you more but better you go straight to this video and watch it through to the end…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) — NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: DREW SEXTON moves up from Campaign Manager for Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) to Deputy Chief of Staff/Press Secretary. Drew is a 2011 graduate of Arizona State University with a BA in Political Science and Economics. CONOR FRYER returns as Chief of Staff for Rep. Shontel Brown (D-Ohio)….
SECRETS OF THE CELL: Did You Know Your Body Is Full of Robot Repairmen?
It’s all but impossible these days to listen to a podcast, watch video on YouTube or read a news story without sooner or later hearing something about the remarkable proliferation of robots performing all kinds of tasks in our daily lives. Add the explosion of applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and it’s difficult to go…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? What American Christians Must Understand About Elections
(45-SECOND READ/WATCH) — Donald Trump won a sweeping victory Tuesday, which means he will go down in history as America’s 45th and 47th president. Trump did so despite unprecedented obstacles thrown in his path from legions of people and institutions who fear and hate him, and despite his own significant foibles and weaknesses. But what…
STAFF NEWS: Your Boss Just Won. Or Lost. What Now For You?
And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Matthew 6:30 Elections on Capitol Hill are always accompanied with anticipation and anxiety. The change that comes with it is easier to navigate for some than others. This election and the…
SCIENCE AND FAITH: Meet the Oldest Continuously Living Organism on the Earth
(SIX-MINUTE READ/WATCH) — It’s the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, found only in the high altitude regions of Eastern California, Nevada and Utah. These twisted, gnarly, twisted trees have endured the gale force winds, extreme cold and lightning-sparked fires for approximately four millennia. Think about that — When Egypt was becoming the world’s first great empire,…
CONTRADICTIONS: No, God Does Not Glorify Killing Babies in Psalm 137
(FIVE-MINUTE READ/WATCH) — Among the most frequently cited verses in the Old Testament by skeptics and critics of Christianity is Psalm 137. In verses 8 and 9 of the Psalm, critics like Dan Barker argue that this is “worst verse in the Bible” because it is God encouraging the Israelites to dash the babies of…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Thomas Jefferson’s Farewell Advice to a Namesake
“Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered, be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss.” — Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson Smith,…
TESTIMONIES: Country Artist Walker Hayes
(10-MINUTE READ/WATCH) — If you follow Country Music, as millions of Americans do, you are no doubt familiar with the name “Walker Hayes.” He’s not only a successful song-writer and performer, but he also, with his long-time friend Craig Allen Cooper, is co-author of a New York Times-best seller, “Glad You’re Here: Two Unlikely Friends…