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.
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Slim Majority of Congressional Aides Trust AI Firms to Police Themselves
(QUICK READ) — Well, this comes as a bit of a shocker, considering all the scary doomsaying in recent weeks predicting that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will develop its own agenda, including wiping out all traces of we human beings. A majority, slim but a majority, 51 percent, of congressional aides responding to a recent CNCT…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Open Positions. Helpful Tips. Veteran Advice.
MOVING UP: Courtesy of Legistorm: JAKE CARVALHO takes the leap from Interning to Press Assistant/Staff Assistant for Rep. Russell Frye (R-SC). Jake is on-schedule to graduate from Coastal Carolina University in 2027 with a BA in Recreation/Sports Management and Public Relations. JENNA WILLIAMSON joins the staff of Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), assuming the duties of…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Rev. John Witherspoon on Liberty Versus Unjust Authority
(QUICK READ) — As the lone pastor among the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, Rev. John Witherspoon certainly and deservedly stands out, but, given his tremendous faith, classical learning and devotion to faith and Christian liberty, he would stand out in any colonial crowd. But Witherspoon’s influence continued long after 1776, as seen…
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…
SUNDAY SONGS: ‘Shining City on a Hill’ by Gene Rutt
(2:25 LISTEN) — It’s not every day that a reader sends over their recording of a wonderful song they’ve written and recorded without any help from any of the music industry giants that have such power over what we can and cannot listen to these days. Gene Rutt in Texas is the reader who shared…
WHAT ABOUT THIS: Human Cells Are Tiny, But They Are Big-Time VIP
(QUICK VIEW) — Your body and those of every other human being who ever lived is composed of an estimated 30 Trillion individual cells. Even when dealing with something as tiny as an individual cell, packing that many into a tiny space is an incredible challenge. Unless you happen to be God, the creator of…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Open Positions. Helpful Tips. Veteran Advice.
MOVING UP: Courtesy of Legistorm: MEDINA HRUSTIC moves into her first-ever full-time position working on a congressional staff, serving as Constituent Advocate for Rep. John Mannion (D-NY). Medina is a 2025 BBA graduate in Management from the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute. Of special note, Medina is fluent in Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian!…
GLIMPSES OF GOD, EPISODE 2: The 21-Day Miracle That Produces a Chicken
(QUICK VIEWING) — Think you can count to 21 billion before the end of your workday today? Okay, how about if you have 21 days to count to 21 billion. Maybe if you take no breaks, get no sleep and force yourself to keep counting no matter what happens. If that question seems a little…
CONSIDER THIS: Guess Who Leads The Top 10 People in All History About Whom Books Have Been Written
(614 WORDS) — You’ve probably never heard of Peter Dickson, but he did something a few years ago that you really should know about, especially if you work on Capitol Hill for a senator, representative, congressional committee or congressional agency. As Cold-Case Christianity’s J. Warner Wallace explains in his fascinating new book, “Person of Interest,”…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: George Washington on the ‘Invisible Hand’ of God
(QUICK READ) — George Washington, the “Father of his country,” left no doubt whatsoever about where his faith was placed before, during and after the American Revolution and his elevation to serve as the first President of the United States. This fact of history is well-illustrated by the following quote from Washington’s First Inaugural Address…