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.
TESTIMONIES: From Atheist MIT Scientist to Follower of Jesus Christ
(9:45 VIEWING) — This will come as a shock to some congressional aides, including perhaps even a few of those who are MIT graduates, but there are followers of Jesus Christ among that highly esteemed university’s most successful and widely respected professors. One of them is Dr. Rosalind Picard. Just consider this from her official…
THE FOUR SUNDAYS OF CHRISTMAS: Merry Christmas From the Moon, 1968
(3:52 VIEWING) — Here’s something about America that hardly ever is remembered in our public life — We are the only nation in the entire history of Earth to send men to the Moon and safely return them back home. The immensity of the technological challenges in successfully going to the moon and back are…
THANKSGIVING FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: James Madison’s 1815 Presidential Proclamation
(QUICK READ) — Today is Thanksgiving 2025 and, as with every one of the previous such days in this country, Americans, more than any other people ever on the face of this good Earth, have so much for which to be thankful. When President James Madison issued his Thanksgiving Day Proclamation in March 1815, it…
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FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: John Adams on Property Law as Sacred
(QUICK READ) — Two of the 10 Commandments — “Thou Shalt Not Covet” and “Thou Shalt Not Steal” — are in the mind of America’s second President as essential to the development and preservation of civilized societies. Protecting the security of the individual’s property against theft by other people and from theft by governments through…
TESTIMONIES: The Amazing Story of the Hrishka Sisters
(8:52 VIEWING) — When was the last time you heard five sisters testify to their individual journeys to knowing Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior? These five Hrishka sisters do a masterful job of sharing their individual and collective stories. Among the common themes was their idea that, since they were raised in “a…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: 50-Year Mortgage Idea DOA With Hill Staffers
(QUICK READ) — With an average age of 27 among the 12,ooo+ congressional aides working on Capitol Hill, their assessment of the utility or advisability of the 50-year mortgage proposal floated recently by President Donald Trump is worth noting. The average of the first-time buyer these days is 40 years, up significantly from the days…
CULTURE: Gen Zers Spending Less Time With Others; Young Men Dropping Out of the Workplace
(QUICK READ) — New survey data analyzed by the Institute for Family Studies (IFS) finds a sharp decline in the amount of face-to-face time young GenZers spend with other people, but especially their friends, in conversation. There is also disturbing new data indicating young men are dropping out of the job market at unprecedented rates….