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.
AMANDA REPORTS: North Korea, Sudan, Yemen Among Top 10 Most Dangerous Places for Christians
(591 WORDS) — North Korea ranks as the world’s most dangerous place for Christians to live, followed by Somalia and Yemen, according to the 2026 World Watch List, the latest ranking by Open Doors of the 50 countries most known for encouraging or allowing extreme persecution of followers of Jesus Christ. Following the top three are…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: When Choosing Revolution is Justified for a Christian
(QUICK READ) — Among the rarely discussed aspects of the events that led to the opening of the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence was the prevalence on colonial Sundays, particularly in New England Congregationalist churches, of the delivery of passionate sermons explaining when a Christian people are justified in throwing off the chains…
TESTIMONIES: Finding Jesus Led to Big Changes for the Better for Dr. Jim Small
(11:25 VIEWING) — Dr. Jim Small grew up in family that was mostly atheistic but tolerant of “religion as a crutch for those who needed it.” Very early in life, he developed a passionate interest in dinosaurs and biological sciences. There was also a period in his early childhood when Small worried endlessly about his…
TESTIMONIES: God Is There, Even in the Silence of Deafness
(2:59 VIEWING) — HillFaith has posted dozens of individual testimonies over the years, all of which conveyed the journeys of real men and women to knowing the saving grace and love of the Lord Jesus Christ. The following Facebook reel from Hayden Daum certainly ranks among the most unique testimonies ever to appear in this…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Five Signs You’ve Become A Prodigal Son Or Daughter
Jesus’ Parable of the Prodigal Son is among the most widely known in the New Testament, but it’s much more than a memorable ancient tale about a young man who abandons family and upbringing to live a life of self-centered pleasure before hitting bottom in a far-off land. This parable may very well be about…
EXODUS EXPLORED, PART 3: God Said ‘Go to Mt. Sinai,’ But Where Is It?
(5:20 VIEWING) — When God called Moses to lead the Israelites out of Egypt, He told him to take them to Mt. Sinai, and that, according to the Book of Exodus in the Bible’s Old Testament, is precisely what he did. But if that’s what actually happened, shouldn’t there be physical and extra-scriptural evidence confirming…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Most Hill Staffers Think Trump a No-Go For Third Term
(QUICK READ) — Ask congressional aides if they think President Donald Trump is serious when he hints at seeking a third term in the Oval and most of the responses, 63 percent overall, will be in the negative, according to a recent CNCT Capitol Pulse survey. Republican junior policy aides showed the biggest doubt about…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Open Positions, New Hires, Big Promotions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM SHIL PATEL was with Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) for eight years, but he’s now moving on from being the senator’s Chief of Staff to a new position off the Hill, serving as President of Ranger Global Advisers LLC. Shil is a 2016 Wharton MBA graduate and earned his…
YOUR DESIGNED BODY: The Miracle of Engineering Oxygen for Humans
(15:43 VIEWING) — If you are the average mature adult male, your body contains somewhere around 36 trillion individual cells, while the figure is approximately 28 trillion individual cells for an adult female human being. Your body requires energy and oxygen to function properly. To produce energy, every cell requires oxygen in order to produce…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: George Mason’s Last Will and Testament
(QUICK READ) — Virginia’s George Mason was not among the signers of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, but he was very much present in the proceedings and thinking that produced it, thanks to his Virginia Declaration of Rights. But Mason’s greatest contribution to the founding era of America was his insistence to James Madison,…