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: Why Didn’t My Mom Want Me?
(8-MINUTE READ) — Steventen Holland was a happy eight-year-old one day when some playmates told him he looked “weird” and “different.” So he asked his Mom about that and got the shock of his young life when she explained that he had become a foster child seven days after birth and was adopted at two…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Slight Majority (52 Percent) of Hill Staffers See Trump Win Coming
(ONE-MINUTE READ) — If the November 5 presidential election were held today, 52 percent of the responding congressional aides working on the Senate and House sides of Capitol Hill believe the winner would be former President Donald J. Trump, according to CNCT’s Capitol Pulse. The 52 percent expecting a Trump win are mostly GOP aides,…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Should Christians Celebrate or Avoid Halloween?
(SIX-MINUTE READ) — It’s Halloween time and that means lots of folks are wondering, if they are Christians, whether they should be celebrating the holiday at all, as well as many more who aren’t followers of Jesus Christ but who nevertheless ask from whence does this curiously popular festival of gore and goblins come? In…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) — COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: SEAN TERREY moves into the Staff Assistant position working for Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.). Sean comes to the Dean office following a stint at Nomura Holding America Inc. where he was an Analyst. But the new slot is also a return as Sean originally served as an Intern in…
CONTRADICTIONS: Was Jesus a Hypocrite Regarding ‘Fools?’
(THREE-MINUTE READ) — EDITOR’S NOTE: Most Wednesdays readers will find on HillFaith a “CONTRADICTIONS” post that addresses one of the arguments in which skeptics claim the Bible cannot be the inspired Word of God because of an alleged contradiction. Jesus forbade at Matthew 5:21-22 using the word “fool” to describe any person and warned that…
TESTIMONIES: How This Jewish Canadian Found Peace and Joy in Jesus Christ
Steven Alvi lives on an island off the coast of British Columbia in the far Western section of Canada and he describes himself as a Jewish man who “for the first seven decades of my life, I thought I had the world by the tail. I was fiercely independent. I studied many different faiths and…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Washington Commends Worship of ‘People Whose God is Jehovah’
“May the same wonder-working Deity, who long since delivering the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors planted them in the promised land — whose providential agency has largely been conspicuous in establishing these United States as an independent nation — still continue to water them with the dews of Heaven and to make the inhabitants of…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Huge Majority of Congressional Aides Want ‘Healthy’ Food Regs
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made a lot of political waves during the 2024 presidential campaign season by initially announcing his candidacy for the Democratic nomination, then after being effectively barred by the Democratic National Committee (DNC), becoming an Independent candidate. But there came a point in RFK Jr’s independent effort that it became clear…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is Truth Subjective or Objective?
People have been making claims about the nature of truth pretty much since the beginning. And over the eons, there have been an awful lot of confused people who weren’t sure whether truth even exists. Remember Pilate’s question to Jesus? Such confusion is especially tragic because the truth is, truth is not simply whatever happens…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: KATE VITTONE moves up to the Press Secretary position on the staff of Rep. Stephanie Bice (R-Okla.). Previously, Kate served as Press Assistant. She is a 2023 Virginia Tech graduate a Bachelor degree in Marketing Management. There is a new Communications Director working for Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.) and his name is…