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.
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…
CONSIDER THIS: So You Think You Are A Rebel?
Ever since the 1960s, millions of Americans have spent big parts of our adolescent and early adult years trying to be different, to stand out from the crowd by rebelling against conventional morality, “The Man,” the system, political arrangements, etc. etc. But guess what! As cross-examine.org’s Melissa Dougherty explains in the following video short, what…
QUICK TAKES: Poll Finds Faith Voters Most Concerned About First Amendment Freedoms
A new national survey of voters who identify themselves as “Faith Voters” finds this key segment of the American electorate puts protection of the First Amendment’s guarantee of every person’s freedom of religious practice and expression to be a top factor in determining which candidates get their support. The survey conducted by the Atlanta-based Trafalgar…
What Is HillFaith About? Only The Most Influential Person Who Ever Lived
Jesus lived on this Earth 2,000 years ago, but no other person in history has done and said more to shape your life and world today. Maybe you should know more about Him. That’s the purpose of HillFaith, to share the facts about Jesus Christ with congressional aides, regardless of party, political ideology or any…