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.
CONSIDER THIS: Is Christianity True And Why Should You Care?
(5:45 VIEWING) — Now there’s an interesting question for congressional aides, the average age of which these days is 27 years old, putting you squarely in the middle of Generation Z. And, as Cold-Case Christianity’s J. Warner Wallace points out during this excerpt from a recent interview on Adherent Apologetics, one big difference between his…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Open Positions. Helpful Tips. Veteran Advice.
MOVING UP: Courtesy of Legistorm: LAUREN SMITH — Got a health care policy issue question for Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-Tenn.)? Lauren Smith is the new Legislative Aide there, moving over from the Legislative Assistant in the office of Rep. David Schweikert (D-AZ). Lauren is a 2020 BA graduate of William & Mary University in Kinesiology…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: John Hancock on Why God’s Blessing is Essential for Liberty
(QUICK READ) — John Hancock’s bold signature on the Declaration of Independence certainly made him the odds-on-favorite to be the first of the 56 men who put their names on that august document to be targeted by the British. Had the Red Coats captured Hancock, he would have been summarily hung as a traitor to…
TESTIMONIES: Brett May Remind You of Somebody — You!
(7:25 VIEWING) — Brett was born and raised in North Carolina, living at the beach and raised by parents who worked hard and provided a materially good life for him during his growing up years. But in his teen years, Brett discovered the surfer’s life of riding the waves, partying with friends and not worrying…
UH-OH! — The Evolutionary Problem Not Even Darwin Could Get Past
(12:02 VIEWING) — Who made the following statements? “As according to the theory of Natural Selection an interminable number of intermediate forms must have existed … why is not every geological formation charged with such links?” “The abrupt manner in which whole groups of species suddenly appear in certain formations has been urged by several…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Open Positions. Helpful Tips. Veteran Advice.
MOVING UP: Courtesy of Legistorm: TORI TEEGARDEN gets the promotion to Deputy Legislative Director for Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wy), after serving on the same staff as Policy Adviser. Tori earned her BS in Animal Science in 2020 from Colorado State University, then headed south to Texas A&M where she was awarded an MS in Food…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Patrick Henry Warns America Against Forgetting God
(QUICK READ) — Virginia’s Patrick Henry is most often remembered, when he is remembered at all these days, as the man who, months before the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed, delivered these fiery words to a startled Virginia Convention Assembly: “But as for me, give me Liberty or give me Death.” These remarks are typically…
AMANDA NEWS: Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit, Lectures Show Hill Aides What a Great Resource They Have in the Museum of the Bible
By Amanda Hughes (665 WORDS) — Vast amounts of ancient biblical texts and their preservation sparks broader interest in learning about the Bible’s actual writers, a recent lecture on the Dead Sea Scrolls hosted by Museum of the Bible reveals. Opened in 2017 in Washington, D.C., Museum of the Bible is a globally influential, and…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Majority of Young Democratic Aides Say They Are ‘More Radical’ Than Their Boss
(QUICK READ) — A clear majority, 53 percent, of Democratic Hill aides under the age of 30 describe themselves as “More Radical” than the Democratic senator or representative for whom they work, according to a recent CNCT Capitol Pulse survey. Overall, 41 percent of the respondents covering both major political parties described themselves with that…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Open Positions. Helpful Tips. Veteran Advice.
MOVING UP: Courtesy of Legistorm: JERRY HODGE takes on his first job ever as a congressional aide, moving into the Veterans and Military Affairs Constituent Liaison slot working for Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NEB). Jerry is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. MAGGIE FITZGERALD is also moving into her first-ever full-time job as an aide…