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.
Yes, This Jewish Broadway Producer Has Found Jesus
Meet Broadway producer Jordan Gilbert, a young Jewish man who for many years hated Christians, considered them “bigots, morons and the worst of the worst.” In fact, from an early age, Gilbert knew that he hated all religions and what he wanted instead were fame, power, celebrity and praise. And for a time that’s what…
REMINDER: Juneteenth Is About The End of Slavery in America in 1865 But, Remember, Millions Are Still Enslaved Here And Around The World Today
June 19, 1865, was the day slaves in Texas first heard about President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation three years earlier and the fact they were thus free, precious news that was brought to them by Union Major-General Gordon Granger. Americans celebrate this day as the federal holiday of “Juneteenth,” the informal contraction…
SCIENCE UPRISING: So You Think The Material World Is All There Is?
Most folks educated in recent decades were taught — and it’s quite likely that the vast majority still believe — that there is nothing that makes up reality other than the material world of atoms, molecules, energy and motion. There is no spirit, nothing that is not matter in motion, measurable and without non-material significance….
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: CHRIS MACARTHUR is the new Legislative Director for Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.). Previously, Chris served for nearly six years as Senior Legislative Assistant to Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI). Chris was awarded an MA in International Business and Policy from Georgetown University in 2020 and a BS in Public Policy from Michigan State…
CONSIDER THIS: Why Did You Come To Work On Capitol Hill?
Ask a randomly selected dozen congressional aides why they came to Capitol Hill to work in the first place and you can be assured of hearing a wide variety of explanations, ranging from “to save the country” to “it’s a stepping stone,” and from “I just love politics” to “it’s a paycheck and I need…
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer
Today is the 79th anniversary of D-Day. There were no guarantees of victory. This was President Roosevelt’s national prayer: “Almighty God. Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor. A struggle to preserve our republic, our religion, and our civilization and to set free a suffering humanity. They will…
EXPLAIN THIS: The ‘Irreducible Complexity’ Of The Elephant’s Trunk
Elephants never forget because they are extremely intelligent. Carthaginian General Hannibal crossed the Alps with a bunch of war elephants that he then used to confront the Roman Legion. There would be no circus without elephants. Those three statements likely exhaust what most people know about this giant. But there is something else about elephants…
