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.
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STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: TYLER VARNER comes aboard the staff of Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) as a Staff Assistant, after interning for Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) and the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms. Tyler is a 2021 graduate in Information Science and Systems/Information Technology from Morgan State University. And joining the staff of Maryland’s other senator, Sen. Ben…
Meet the Kinesins, Your Body’s On-Time Cellular Supply Chain Trucking Fleet
Those billions of cells that make up your body require all kinds of supplies in order to fulfill their respective functions in keeping you alive and well. That’s where the “walking wonder” of the Kinesin family of molecular motors enters the picture. As the Discovery Institute’s Evolution News & Science Today explains, the Kinesin-II is…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Historian’s Analysis Offers New Approach to Evidence for Jesus’ Resurrection
Did the earliest Christians — those around in the days and weeks immediately following His death, burial and resurrection — understand who He claimed to be or did it take decades before the full truth of His divinity as the Son of God and full humanity as the Son of Man was understood and proclaimed,…
This May Be A Hugely Significant Archeological Find About The Ancient Hebrews
Dr. Sean McDowell, an Associate Professor of Apologetics at Biola University, describes a recent archeological discovery in Israel that could be decisive evidence that the Hebrews were a literate culture when they arrived in the Promised Land following their 400 year-captivity in Egypt. Why is this discovery so important? Because critics have argued that the…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? They Say the Classics Must Go
With the onslaught throughout the American public education system of analyses based on Critical Race Theory and related claims about “white privilege,” it comes as no surprise to hear demands that “the classics” should be done away with as relics of past injustices. Whether it’s classics like Aristotle’s “Nichomachean Ethics,” Thomas Aquinas’ “Summae Contra Gentiles”…
STAFF NEWS: Turnover Rate For House Aides Hit 20-Year High in 2021
Data compiled by Legistorm shows the highest single-year turnover rate among House staffers since the company began compiling information in 2021, according to Ketura Hetrick. “House turnover has crept upward since about 2009, but the pandemic and Capitol insurrection pushed far more staffers than usual to leave their jobs in 2021 – 55 percent more…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill (Might Be Somebody You Know!)
Courtesy of Legistorm: JENNIFER PIERCY is the new Economic Development Director for Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV). Jennifer is a 2003 MA graduate in Journalism and Political Science from Marshall University and she also earned her BA from Marshall. KNOX MCCUTCHEN: Moves into the Communications Director slot for Rep. Cliff Bentz (R-Ore.) after serving stints…
Bet You Didn’t Know This About Camels
No, camels do not store water in their hump (or humps in the case of Asian camels), so that’s not why they can go days or even months without so much as drinking a drop of water. But they can eat prickly cactus plants without injuring their mouths. The reason camels can eat cactus plants…