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.
A Thanksgiving Remembrance and Meditation
Every Thanksgiving for decades, the Wall Street Journal has reprinted a page from William Bradford’s account of the last night of the Pilgrims in the Netherlands before their departure to cross the Atlantic on the Mayflower for the New World. Even without the Journal’s annual reprinting, however, Bradford’s account has been read countless times by…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Definitions Matter a Great Deal
Imagine two people are talking about “rights,” “freedom” and “justice” and, even though they are using the same words, they keep coming to dramatically conflicting conclusions about what those words actually mean and how they are actualized. The problem very likely is that they are using the same words, but they each mean something quite…
STAFF NEWS: Three of Four Hill Aides Say They Are Satisfied With Their Jobs But …
Results from the survey by the House Office of Diversity and Inclusion (HODI) of attitudes among congressional staffers about their workplaces, compensation, benefits and bosses are revealing some unexpected results and a few apparent contradictions. Asked to agree or disagree with the statement “Considering everything, I am satisfied with my job,” a huge majority, 75.6…
EXPLAIN THIS: 10 Embarrassing Facts About Jesus You Probably Don’t Know
Jesus Christ is the most famous person who ever lived. Two millennia after He walked in Judea and Galilee, billions of people worship Him as the Son of God. More books have been written about Him than any other person in history. His words are studied in virtually every country on the face of the…
SUNDAY SONGS: ‘Truth Be Told’ by Matthew West
Everybody puts up that front that all is well, right? We put our “best foot forward” in the hope that the things we all struggle with on the inside aren’t seen by others on our outside. Rare indeed is the man or woman for whom it can honestly be said that what you see with…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Acclaimed Philosopher Says Knowing God is Indeed Possible
William Lane Craig may not be the first person that comes to mind if you are asked to name five top celebrities in American culture today, but he is well-known and respected among contemporary philosophers and philosophy professors. According to his web site, reasonablefaith.org, Craig has authored or edited more than 30 books, including The…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who is Moving Up on Capitol Hill This Week (Might be Somebody You Know!)
Courtesy of Legistorm: Rep. Young Kim (R-CA) has a new Field Representative, SARAH MENDOZA, who was previously doing similar work for State Sen. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh (R-CA). Sarah is a 2018 Hofstra University graduate with a BA in Communications and Media Studies. MOLLY BLOCK is making the move from Louisiana to North Dakota. No, she’s…
STAFF NEWS: Conservative Groups Push for Hill Staff Pay Hikes
A coalition of conservative advocacy groups is pushing Republican leaders on the Senate Appropriations Committee to support measures to increase funding and staffing resources to revive congressional oversight and to improve compensation for Hill aides. In a lengthy letter to Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) and Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN), the top GOPer on the appropriations…
Kristallnacht Began Tonight, 83 Years Ago
My friend Jeff Dunetz at The Lid reminds us that 83 years ago tonight, the Holocaust began with Kristallnacht. Hitler and his National Socialists movement — aka “Nazis” — launched systematic attacks, arrests and property destruction across Germany and the occupied portions of Czechoslovakia in 1938. “Ninety-nine Jews were murdered, and 25,000 to 30,000 were…
What a Concept! A World Where Free People Can Work … Freely
“You may be a CEO who is a Christian, but not a Christian CEO.” These are the words that I believe eventually led to my husband’s departure from his company. He had run a successful tech company for more than a decade, and 2020 was the most profitable year yet. However, identity politics led the…