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.
EXODUS EXPLORED, Part 4: Moses Fled to Midian, So Maybe That’s Where Mt. Sinai Is
(5:48 VIEWING) — When Moses was a young Jewish man in the court of the Egyptian Pharaoh, he sympathized with his fellow Israelites who were enslaved. A day came Moses, seeing an Israelite being mistreated, killed the Egyptian responsible for the mistreatment. But despite his burying the dead Egyptian in the sand, Moses’ act was…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Open Positions, New Hires, Big Promotions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM WILL BARRY — Apparently being Communications Director for Rep. Mark Alford (R-Mo.) wasn’t keeping him busy enough, so Will Barry now has the added title of Deputy Chief of Staff. Prior to hooking up with the Missouri GOPer, Will was Communications Director for House Financial Services Committee Chairman…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: More Than Three-Fourths of Staffers Say No Stock Trading for Members
(QUICK READ) — With Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) generating beaucoup headlines with her apparently sudden rags-to-riches story, renewed attention is being focused on all senators and representatives seemingly still being able to profit on stock trades. Legislation to bar stock trading by Members is overwhelmingly popular with congressional aides working for both major parties, with…
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…