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: GOP Aides Far More Open to Populism Than Dems
Slightly more than half, 52 percent, of the congressional aides expressed disapproval in responding to CNCT’s recent survey of opinion on how populism is perceived among Hill staffers. But dig a little deeper into the results and some interesting contrasts are seen. Among GOP staffers, for example, approval of populism reached 65 percent, compared to…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: YAEL SHEINFELD has set up shop as Press Secretary to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) after previously serving a stint as Interim Communications Director for the Democratic Party of Illinois. Yael is a 2021 BA graduate in Communications Studies from Northeastern University. ANNA BROOKS REED makes the jump from serving as Press Assistant…
GOOD QUESTION: What Accounts for the Transformation of These Four Men?
What accounts for the transformation of these four men from cowards, skeptics and deadly adversaries into the acknowledged and respected leaders of the early Christian movement? That something was seeing and talking with the resurrected Jesus Christ. Even most critical scholars agree that something occurred that completely changed Peter, James, the half-brother of Jesus, Thomas,…
EXPLAIN THIS: Do You Really Know How Massive The Evidence Is For The Literal Resurrection of Jesus Christ?
Former reporter and editor Lee Strobel is the author of *”The Case for Christ” and multiple successor volumes that describe his exhaustive assessment of the historical, archeological, literary, medical, scientific and logical evidence for Christianity. The most important part of Strobel’s investigation focused on the evidence for the literal resurrection of Jesus Christ. Such emphasis…
TESTIMONIES: Atheist Doctor Challenged Resurrection, Found New Life in Jesus
Ambition is almost the key currency of the realm when it comes to politics and nowhere is this more so the case than in Congress and on Capitol Hill where there are thousands of super smart and super ambitious men and women working hard every day to advance up the next rung on the ladder…
FOR THE REST OF THE STORY: Eric Liddell
Yesterday here on HillFaith, my tribute to the great Scots gold medalist Eric Liddell appeared on these pages to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of his remarkable performance and witness during the 1924 Olympics. There is of course much more to Liddell’s story than his winning the gold medal. In fact, the most important and…
CONSIDER THIS: Don’t be Afraid, It’s Just a Spider! (And it’s Actually Kind of Miraculous)
Who doesn’t hate to encounter spiders anywhere, but especially in your home, office, car or commercial establishment? But guess what, spiders perform a crucially important role in balancing the cycle of life in the insect world. Their work in consuming millions of pests — think especially of mosquitoes and house flies — helps make human…
OLYMPICS 2024: ‘God Made Me Fast And When I Run, I Feel His Pleasure.’ Do You?
EDITOR’S NOTE: Today is the first day of the 2024 Paris Olympics, a century after the great Scots runner, Eric Liddell, gave the world a stirring display of courage and faith in action on the athletic field and behind the scenes as well. Longtime HillFaith readers know that Liddell is immensely admired and honored on…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: BRITTANY PSYHOGIOS-SMITH moves into the Scheduling Director position working for Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.). Before joining the Speaker’s staff, Brittany was Deputy Chief of Staff for Rep. Brad Finstad (R-MN). Brittany is a 2011 graduate of Bethel University with a BA in Business and Political Science. In another Minnesota…