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.
EXPLAIN THIS: Meet Your Body’s Incredible Un-tangler of Lethal DNA Knots
If you’ve ever had to untangle a garden hose with multiple knots, or the strings on a pair of running shoes that somehow became a deviously twisted morass, you know how frustrating and difficult it can be to get it all straightened out. But what if your life depended on you being able to make…
This Is Not Your Typical Hill Staff Meeting (But Lunch Really Is Free!)
Want to start your week off right? Check out HillFaith’s “For Hill Aides Only” gathering that is strictly for congressional aides, Senate and House side. It’s an informal time for fellowship, Bible study, sharing, learning and focusing on the truly VIP stuff in life. Plus, there’s always a FREE LUNCH! We meet *Mondays at noon…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ Up On The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: LOGAN WILLIAMS makes the big move up to Press Secretary for Rep. Adrian Smith (R-Neb.), from his prior tenure as Press Assistant. Logan has also previously served as Legislative Correspondent. Logan earned his BA in History in 2014 from Doane University. There is a new Legislative Assistant working for Rep. Debbie Dingell…
… Then Doing This Is ‘Just’ Another Miracle For God …
Check out these *Bible verses and see if you can figure out to whom they are referring: “Those who hate me without cause are more numerous than the hairs of my head.” “The kings of the Earth take their stand and the rulers conspire together against the Lord and His anointed one.” “Even my friend…
If God Can Create This ….
Reprinted from nasa.gov: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared – have appeared…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week!
Courtesy of Legistorm: JOE BALLARD is the first Legislative Assistant hired by newly elected Rep. Maya Flores (R-Texas). Previously, Joe was a Public Affairs Associate at KMP Group DC. Joe’s 2020 MA in Economics was awarded by the University of Alabama, which also awarded him his BA in Economics and Finance the same year. SOPHIA…
DID YOU KNOW: Maybe Early Christianity Exploded Because It Was Radically Unlike Pagan Deities
If you’ve been in a college classroom during the past several decades in which the history of religion came up, you almost certainly heard somebody — most likely the professor — make the case that Christianity “stole” or “adapted” many elements of the multiple pagan deities that flourished in the ancient world. One of the…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: LIZZ SHAVERS is the new Scheduler for Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) and her first full-time position on a congressional staff. Previously, Lizz was an Intern in the office of Rep. Trent Kelly (R-Miss.). She is a 2022 graduate of the University of Mississippi at Oxford in Psychology. TUCKER KNOTT returns to the…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Why Jesus Was the Most Compassionate Man Who Ever Lived
“Compassion” is a word we often hear in American society, especially if you happen to be working as a staff member for a senator or representative, or a committee, in Congress. We spend hundreds of billions of dollars every year to demonstrate our compassion toward the less fortunate among us. But is appropriating another $100…