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.
How to Handle the Bore Somebody Sat You With at an Event
So you find yourself on an airplane or at a dinner that has pre-arranged seating and you are unlucky enough to be seated beside somebody who thinks exactly the opposite of the way you do on every conceivable issue. Not only that and to make matters even worse, this individual is highly opinionated, loud and…
CONSIDER THIS: Where Is God? Maybe Closer Than You Think
Asking “where is God” likely seems for many men and women working on Capitol Hill as, at best, an irrelevant question or, at worst, evidence of the questioner being trapped in the ignorance and superstitions of the past. Such is almost the conventional wisdom for many walking the halls of Longworth, Russell and other congressional…
Here’s The Single Most Important Thing You Must Avoid as a Congressional Aide
No, this is not another one of the seemingly endless parade of books, articles, videos and podcasts dealing with topics like “how to succeed without really trying,” or “the seven healthiest habits of the seven happiest colleagues you know,” or “you deserve to be the boss.” This is about the tough reality of living and…
Looking For a Hill Job? You Need to Know These Facts About Offices You Might Want to Avoid
With the opening of the 118th Congress, hundreds of staff vacancies are being filled on the personal staffs of individual senators and representatives, as well as on the committee staffs of the Senate and House of Representatives. If you are new to the Hill, you should know which offices have the highest staff turnover rates…
Most Members of Congress Claim to be Christians, But Host of Other Faiths There, Too
Three hundred and three of the 434 Members sworn-in for the 118th Congress claim to be Protestants, while another 148 say they belong to Catholic parishes, meaning fully 87.5 percent of the House of Representatives identify as Christians, according to the Pew Research Center (PRC). In the latest edition of the PRC’s “Faith on the…
CONSIDER THIS: A Whale of a Way to Start 2023
With less than a handful of exceptions, mammals are all land-bound creatures. The biggest of the few exceptions is the Humpback Whale. It meets all the qualifications for being a mammal, yet it spends its entire life in the ocean. The conventional evolutionary wisdom ascribes the origin of the Humpback Whale to a much smaller…
STAFF NEWS: Pelosi Raises Aides’ Salary Cap
In one of her final acts as Speaker of the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) raised the salary cap for congressional aides, boosting it to $212,100 from the present $203,700. She announced the increase in a Dear Colleague Letter: “As you know, our hard-working, patriotic congressional staffers are integral to the functioning of the House…
What Thomas Jefferson Actually Meant on ‘Separation of Church and State’
It will be the 220th anniversary come this New Years Day of Thomas Jefferson’s response from the White House to the letter he had received from the Danbury Baptists expressing their concern about the protection of religion liberty in America. Conventional wisdom holds that there are only two possible views about Jefferson’s famous letter and it’s…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Law of Biogenesis, Consciousness And The Origin of Life
Our bodies, like the Earth, Moon, Sun and stars in the universe, are made of physical matter. There is space, time and matter. We are made of the latter, we exist in a specific space and we do so for a particular amount of time. But we also have consciousness, which has no physical…
A Request For Prayer
Earlier today, I met an individual I did not previously know who was providing a service to me in their shop. As we talked, we each offered the usual small talk about Christmas and we spent a good big of time on the subject of our dogs. But then the individual broke down and shared…