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.
THIS IS HUGE: The World’s Greatest Computer is Between Your Ears
Here’s something you probably didn’t know about yourself – That three-pound mass of flesh between your ears is the most powerful supercomputer on earth. In fact, there isn’t a supercomputer built by man anywhere on Earth that can do all the things your brain does simultaneously. How does your brain do so much? As the…
GOOD QUESTION: Oxford Mathematician Asks ‘What Would Be Your Last Words to the World?’
John Lennox is a world-famous Oxford professor of mathematics and Christian philosopher and apologist, who has debated the most well-known and challenging atheists, including Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. Born in Northern Ireland and blessed with a sharp intellect and drawn by the Lord into a deep faith in Jesus Christ as his Lord and…
SUNDAY SONGS: ‘Goodness of God’ by Don Moen and Featuring Rachel Robinson
Verse 1 I love You Lord Oh Your mercy never fails me All my days I’ve been held in Your hands From the moment that I wake up Until I lay my head I will sing of the goodness of God Chorus All my life You have been faithful All my life You have been…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Compensation Down for 5 Key House Committee Jobs, Up For 5 Others
Working on a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives is in many respects, including compensation, the most challenging and rewarding opportunity to which a congressional aide can aspire in the lower chamber. A recent analysis by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of staff compensation data going back to 2001 for 10 top positions on…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Women in Both Parties Strongest Supporters of Instagram’s Teen Account Updates
When Instagram announced its site updates designed to increase protections of adolescent and younger kids using the social media app, a lot of women serving as congressional aides on both sides of the partisan aisle cheered. That’s according to CNCT’s latest Capitol Pulse, which found that 76 percent of the women approved the updates as…
THE FAITH OF GREAT AMERICANS: George Washington
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great Pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and citizens. “The mere Politician, equally with the pious…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Should Christians Use ‘Preferred Pronouns?’
A direct result of Transgenderism is the growing incidence of scenarios like this: A woman who becomes convinced she is really a man can find a Doctor who will at her request surgically remove her breasts and reconstruct her genitalia to appear to like that of a man. The same doctor will then fill her…
CONTRADICTIONS? Moses Did Write the First Five Books of the Bible (And, Yes, It Matters a Great Deal)
Among the most enduring claims of the 19th Century “Higher Criticism” School of German academics who rejected the divine authorship of the Bible is the claim that Moses was not the author of the first five books, aka the Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy). Chief among the contentions of such critics was that…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: House Republican Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) has a new National Security Adviser and her name is AMELIA LITYNSKI. Amelia moves up from her previous position with Emmer as Policy Adviser. Amelia is a 2023 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Command and Staff College with a MA in Military Operational Art and…
TESTIMONIES: If This Brilliant, World-Acclaimed Jewish Scientist Accepts Jesus as God … What About You?
Professor James Tour of Rice University is a genuinely remarkable man. A PhD in organic chemistry from Purdue University who did post-doctoral studies at Stanford University, he’s been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and he was voted one of the “50 Most Influential Scientists in the World.” He’s also got more than 200 patents…