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.
THINK ABOUT THIS: What Mount Rushmore Teaches Us About How We Got Here
If you have never been to Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota, let me encourage you to make whatever arrangements you need in order to do son soon. It is an amazing memorial to the human ability to create masterful art in stone. Each of the four presidential faces on the mountains…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: ARIANA ORNE is the new Communications Director for Rep. Paul Ruiz (D-Calif.). Before signing on with Ruiz, Ariana served as Communications Director for the Special Competitive Studies Project and she has also served as a Public Relations Analyst for the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. Ariana was awarded an MA in…
CONSIDER THIS: How the Cyrus Cylinder Demonstrates the Bible’s Historical Accuracy
Among the most common claims of critics of the Bible is that it isn’t trustworthy as an historical source for things that happened in the ancient world. As with so much of such criticism, the facts tell a complettely different story. Take the Cyrus Cylinder, for example. This landmark archeological find was discovered in 1879…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Do You Really Need to go to Church?
Ask any congressional staffer at random on Capitol Hill if they went to church the previous Sunday and odds are good you will get a quizzical smile, a look of puzzlement or even a frowning exclamation of “No way, man, why would I even want to do that when there’s so many more important things…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Six Things Jesus Claimed About Himself
What did Jesus say about Himself while He was here on Earth? Here are six key claims Jesus Christ made about Himself, claims that, if true, confirm Him as the most important person who ever lived and one that all of us must, sooner or later, come to terms with, regardless of our status, wealth,…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: MEREDITH ROGERS is the new Press Secretary for Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI), coming to the Hill after a lengthy tenure at Kountoupes Denham Carr & Reid LLC. Meredith received her MA from Johns Hopkins University last year in Communications and her BA in Government from the University of Virginia in 2019. Joint…
CONSIDER THIS: Thoughts on Lasting Friendship, Jesus and ‘Making It’ on the Hill
Work on the Hill for a few years and you are all but guaranteed to develop important friendships. I don’t mean the sort of relationships that are essential to functioning effectively as a Hill aide — colleagues on your particular personal or committee staff and those on other staffs with whom you interact regularly and…
TESTIMONIES: Atheist Aussie Teacher Just Happened to Get on ‘That’ Bus With ‘That’ Guy
Frank Frederico grew up in a Catholic family in Australia and by the time he was 16 years of age, he had concluded that Christianity was not based on historical fact but was rather a bunch of apocryphal stories, legends of dubious origin and outright lies. By the time he entered university, Frank was a…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Majority of Congressional Aides Support Term Limits for Bosses
This will likely come as a shock to more than 500 men and women working in the nation’s capitol who have prefixes before their names of either “Sen.” or “Rep.” What they will be shocked by is the fact that the most recent informal survey of congressional staffers by CNCT found that 53 percent profess…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: GEOFF MACLEAY takes up shop as Chief Counsel for Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.). Before making this move up, Geoff was Counsel to the North Carolina lawmaker. Geoff is a 2007 graduate of the Emory University School of Law and received his BA in History and Political Science in 2004 from Tulane University….