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.
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…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Congressional Aides Nearly Unanimous Feds Should Regulate AI
(TWO-MINUTE READ) — Getting nearly everybody to agree on anything has been all but impossible recently on the floor of Congress and the same is true of the 12,000+ congressional aides who do most of the daily work of the legislative process. So it’s news when 86 percent of all responding staffers agree that the…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is This Election The Most Important Ever?
(FOUR-MINUTE READ) — They say it over and over again every two years — “this is the most important election ever because if Candidate X wins, then all will be lost, but if Candidate Y wins, then all of our problems will be solved and we’ll never again have to worry about them.” As is…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) — NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: JAY BARGHAVA is the new Communications Director for Democrats on the House Budget Committee, working for Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.). Jay is returning to the Hill after spending more than a year at Powell Tate as Vice-President. He is a 2016 graduate of George Washington University with…
CONTRADICTIONS: Did the Angel Appear to Joseph or Mary?
(TWO-MINUTE READ) — Let’s see now, the Gospel of Luke tells us an angel appeared to Mary before she gave birth to the baby Jesus, while the Gospel of Matthew tells us that it was Joseph who got the angelic visitation. Blatant contradiction? Does different mean contradictory? Can the Yankees come back from losing the…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Faith Was Washington’s Order of the Day
(ONE-MINUTE READ) — “The General most earnestly requires, and expects, a due observance of those articles of war, established for the Government of the army, which forbid profane cursing, swearing, and drunkenness; And in like manner requires and expects, of all Officers and Soldiers, not engaged on actual duty, a punctual attendance on divine Service,…
TESTIMONIES: Why Didn’t My Mom Want Me?
(8-MINUTE READ) — Steventen Holland was a happy eight-year-old one day when some playmates told him he looked “weird” and “different.” So he asked his Mom about that and got the shock of his young life when she explained that he had become a foster child seven days after birth and was adopted at two…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Slight Majority (52 Percent) of Hill Staffers See Trump Win Coming
(ONE-MINUTE READ) — If the November 5 presidential election were held today, 52 percent of the responding congressional aides working on the Senate and House sides of Capitol Hill believe the winner would be former President Donald J. Trump, according to CNCT’s Capitol Pulse. The 52 percent expecting a Trump win are mostly GOP aides,…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Should Christians Celebrate or Avoid Halloween?
(SIX-MINUTE READ) — It’s Halloween time and that means lots of folks are wondering, if they are Christians, whether they should be celebrating the holiday at all, as well as many more who aren’t followers of Jesus Christ but who nevertheless ask from whence does this curiously popular festival of gore and goblins come? In…