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.
THINK ABOUT THIS: ‘The Truth in True Crime: What Investigating Death Teaches Us About the Meaning of Life’ by J. Warner Wallace
Former Los Angeles Police Detective and NBC “Dateline” featured cold-case expert J. Warner Wallace is a national treasure for this country and a precious asset for the Christian church in America and worldwide. Why do I say that? Because I’ve read his latest book, “The Truth in True Crime,” as well as his previous major…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Does One Vote Matter?
If you work on Capitol Hill, you most likely know that President Joe Biden received 81 million votes to be elected to this nation’s highest office in 2020. But did you also know that those 81 million votes constituted only 34 percent of all eligible voters? And did you further know the total number of…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: PHIL POE makes the big step up from Professional Staff Member to Deputy Staff Director for the House Financial Services Committee’s National Security, Illicit Finance and International Financial Institutions Subcommittee. Phil is a 2020 graduate of the University of Maryland Baltimore County with a BA in Political Science and he earned an…
TESTIMONIES: Amanda Hated God When Grandpa Died
When Amanda was a seven-year-old girl, her grandfather taught her how to play softball and she loved it. She loved it so much that she also played volleyball, basketball, football, pretty much all of the “ball” sports. “My grandfather was my cheerleader. He encouraged me at every turn,” Amanda explains. But seven years later, Amanda’s…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Huge Majority of Hill Staffers Say Biden Should Drop Out of Presidential Race
More than two-thirds, 69 percent, of congressional aides responding to the latest CNCT Capitol Pulse survey say President Joe Biden should bow out of his campaign for a second term in the Oval Office. Amazingly, there is virtually no difference between the responses of Democratic and Republican staffers. Seventy percent of the former say Biden…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: How Should I Vote if I Don’t Like Either Candidate?
So Joe Blow, the Democrat candidate, scares the daylights out of you and Bill Smith, the GOP candidate, puts you to sleep in a about three sentences, so how do you decide which way to cast your ballot come election day? The great folks at the Colson Center who produce the “What Would You Say?”…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
JOB OPENINGS: Courtesy of CNCT, the app that connects Hill staffers: DEMOCRATS: Rep. Henry Cuellar | Legislative Director | Apply HERE Cuellar Staff Line: Legislative Turnover Index 1.12 (House Average is 0.54). Office Median Staff Salary $47,480.04. Rep. Brittany Petersen | Communications Director | Apply HERE Petersen Staff Line: Legislative Turnover Index 0.29 (House Average is 0.54). Office Median…
CONSIDER THIS: Why Doesn’t God Prevent Evil?
There likely isn’t a single person reading the headline above who hasn’t asked themselves and God that question – why do you allow evil and pain and suffering in this world, Lord? More than a few who have asked the question concluded the presence of evil is evidence that God doesn’t exist because if He…
TESTIMONIES: Christina Was a Drug-Addicted and Homeless Atheist Who Hated God, but Then She Met Jesus
America is wracked with broken homes and the crippled lives that so often follow the children trapped in the storm and chaos of divorce. Christina Baker came out of such a home and for years she felt trapped and unable to do anything about her life. A severe on-again/off-again drug addiction, an illegitimate son, multiple…