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 NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: KENNETH LEE moves into the Counsel position on the Constitution Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, working for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Kenneth previously was an Associate at the Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. He earned his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 2021 and his BA in International…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Male Hill Staffers More Likely to Want Kids. Surprised?
When CNCT asked in its latest Capitol Pulse survey how important it is to have kids, significantly more of the men answered “Very Important” than did the women, 77 percent to 50 percent. The responses also included 80 percent of the Republicans saying having kids is “Very Important,” compared to 38 percent of the Democrats….
Spiritual Meat for Memorial Day: Three Reasons Why Christians Should Read Military History
From “Wintery Knight:” A while back, I finished a book called “Beyond The Call: The True Story of One World War II Pilot’s Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front”. It’s about a World War II heavy bomber pilot who completes 35 missions, and then goes into the Soviet Union (our allies, at…
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…