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.
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Washington on Americans’ Debt of Gratitude to God for Our Independence
“No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts in the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step, by which they have been advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.” – George…
TESTIMONIES: Allison Byxbe’s Four Bible Verses to Help With Depression
We all have those hours, days, sometimes weeks or more, when depression hits, making every task seem overwhelming, drying up our reserves of optimism and hope, and sparking doubts about pretty much everything. Such times can be especially challenging for those who know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Surprised by that claim? Don’t…
MIRACLES BY DESIGN: Check Out This Mama Bird and Her Umbrella
(FOUR-MINUTE READ) — Most bird mamas use their wings to cover their chicks for a variety of reasons, including keeping the little ones warm, protecting them from predators and ensuring they get the rest their rapidly developing bodies require for proper growth. It’s also not uncommon for mama birds to use their wings to shield…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Slightly Less Than Half of Staffers Think Their Boss Deserves a Raise
Not quite half, 49 percent to be exact, of all staffers responding to the latest CNCT Capitol Pulse survey said they believe their bosses should get a pay raise in the 119th Congress. Almost as many, 47 percent, think Members do not deserve fatter paychecks. What’s really surprising here, though, is the lack of partisan…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) — NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: ANNA FOX moves into her first full-time position on a Capitol Hill staff, as Legislative Correspondent for Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.). Before accepting her new job, Anna was an Intern for Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.). Anna is a 2022 BA graduate of the University of Tennessee at…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Actor Anthony Hopkins on the Greatest Man Ever
UPDATE: Readers are advised to see the comment below by Josiah making a strong case that this video is in fact a fake. As the editor of HillFaith, I apologize to readers for my failure to document the legitimacy of the video. I am leaving it posted on the site with this warning so that…
CONTRADICTIONS? Does God Really Know Everything?
Among the most familiar and important claims of the Bible is that God is sovereign, omniscient, omni-competent and omni-present. He knows everything all the time, including the number of hairs on the head of every person ever born. Not only that, He knows what I did on the 87th day of my 21st year on…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: de Tocqueville on the Source of America’s Greatness
(ONE-MINUTE READ) — Alexis de Tocqueville was a French political philosopher of the early 19th century who came to America, observed our society, and then penned the classic work of sociology and political analysis, Democracy in America. For many decades, de Tocqueville was among the most frequently quoted analysts of what makes the American experiment…
TESTIMONIES: Grace Munro Learned to Walk Her Faith in Jesus at Ole Miss
(FOUR-MINUTE READ AND WATCH) — Going to college and living the party life is great fun for a time, but, as Grace Munro found during her years at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, there also comes an emptiness because sooner or later you are asking yourself “if that all there is?” Where genuine happiness…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Can You Guess How Aides View Biden Pardon?
When President Joe Biden granted his son Hunter a wide-ranging pardon, reactions tended to fall into either of two camps, with the first being the Chief Executive was acting as any loving father would and the second summarized with the question “what did you expect?” Think congressional staffers are different? The responses when CNCT Capitol…