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: 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,…
TESTIMONIES: Okie Atheist Partied to the Gates of Hell, Then Turned to Jesus
(12:50 VIEWING) — Dr. Donald Whitaker was a hard-drinking party animal in 1975 when he was invited to a big production on the West Coast by Hoyt Axton, the songwriter behind “Joy to the World” by Three Dog Night and Steppenwolf’s “The Pusher.” Whitaker was accustomed to rubbing elbows with famous folks, including Ringo Starr…
EXODUS EXPLORED (Part 2): The Israelites Leave Egypt and Conquer the Promised Land
(4:20 VIEWING) — Physical and written evidence is abundant that the Israelites actually did depart from 400 years of slavery in Egypt and, after a long stint in the Sinai wilderness, arrive in the Promised Land, which was then known as Canaan, between 14th and 12th centuries. In the following Part 2 (of 13) of…
HILL FAITH VIEWS: ‘Call Your Mother’ Wins Staffers’ Fave Bagel Shop
(QUICK READ) — It was close but Call Your Mother edged out Bethesda Bagel 31 percent to 28 percent to win the title of the favorite bagel shop for congressional aides, according to the results of the latest CNCT Capitol Pulse survey. HillFaithers are not surprised since we offer free breakfast from Call Your Mother…
HILL FAITH NEWS: Open Positions, New Hires, Big Promotions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM RAY CONOWAY moves up to the Chief of Staff slot for Rep. Kwesi Mfume (D-Md.) after serving for a year and a half as District Director. Ray is a 2018 graduate of Bowie State University with a BS in Government and a 2022 MPA graduate of McDaniel College…
CONSIDER THIS: All Life Runs on Code and Code Doesn’t Just Happen
(3:46 VIEWING) — If you’ve ever seen a blueprint for a towering skyscraper, the complex coding languagethat directs your laptop, or a string of DNA, then you have a pretty solid idea of the importance of things like how-to instruction manuals. To appreciate the significance of DNA in understanding that human beings display the characteristics…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Alexander Hamilton’s Profession of Faith Upon Being Mortally Wounded in a Duel
(QUICK READ) — America’s first Secretary of the Treasury was Alexander Hamilton, a man without whom it is difficult to envision the success of the American Revolution and the creation of the Constitution that created the United States of America. Hamilton was a trusted aide to Gen. George Washington during the war, he and James…
TESTIMONIES: How Atheist Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger Found Jesus Christ
(9:36 VIEWING) — Dr. Larry Sanger is a former Professor of Philosophy but you are far more likely to know of him in his work as a co-founder of Wikipedia, one of the most widely read and influential web sites ever created for the Internet. Being a philosophy professor gave Sanger a deep knowledge of…