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.
DESIGN OR EVOLUTION? The Complicated Truth About The ‘Simple’ Jellyfish
(7:28 VIEWING) — Here’s a scientific fact most people do not know: The most efficient swimmer in the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers is the Jellyfish, that odd creature that has no brain, no bones and no heart. Surprised? That’s just the first of a whole bunch of facts about the jellyfish known by extraordinarily…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Benjamin Rush on Christianity and the Republic
(QUICK READ) — Dr. Benjamin Rush was among the most interesting characters among the Founders of the United States of America, playing a key role in the Revolutionary War, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and was active in the constitutional era that began in 1789. Among much else, Rush was an early…
TESTIMONIES: When ‘Hitting Bottom’ is The Beginning of a Changed Life
(4:00 VIEWING) — There is a phrase familiar among recovering alcoholics about “hitting bottom.” Those words reflect that hard reality that for many who suffer with the disease, they cannot get well without first admitting they have a problem. And that admission often only comes when things are so screwed up in their life that…
CHRISTMAS 2025: Who Is This Jesus?
Jesus truly is the reason for the season of Christmas and the most important fact about Him is …
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: John Jay, First Supreme Court Chief Justice, on Simple Faith
(QUICK READ) — John Jay was America’s first Supreme Court Chief Justice, one of the trio of authors of The Federalist Papers, and he was a man who had no reservation about expressing his Christian faith and how he believed it shaped his life, as an individual and as an American patriot. One thing Jay…
TESTIMONIES: CNCT Founder Had Only $0.91 But He Also Had God
By David Tennent It’s been almost three years since I last climbed the mountain behind my wife’s family home in Los Angeles. Sitting on the trail this week, taking in God’s beauty, I was overcome by His faithfulness. The last time I was here, life looked very different. We were deep in grief after losing…
SUNDAY SONGS: ‘I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day’ by Casting Crowns
(4:42 VIEWING) — You know how a certain song you hear will get in your mind and you can’t get it out? This version by Casting Crowns of “I Heard the Bells of Christmas” is like that for me. I can listen to it over and over, and then the melody just keeps going on…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Most Aides Reject Members’ Potty-Mouth Rhetoric
(QUICK READ) — Potty-mouth senators and representatives speaking on the floor of Congress, news conferences or public speeches are not a hit with the majority of congressional aides, according to the latest Capitol Pulse survey by CNCT. Fifty-six percent of the respondents told Capitol Pulse that cursing in such contexts is “inappropriate,” while 44 percent…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is Christmas Just a Stolen Pagan Holiday?
(4:35 VIEWING) — If you’ve heard it once, you’ve probably heard, read or been taught dozens of times that the early Christian church “stole” Christmas from one of the many pagan festivals celebrated throughout the ancient world. As the Colson Center’s Shane Morris declares in the following “What Would You Say” video, don’t believe for…