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 AMERICA’S FOUNDERS: James Madison and the All-Powerful, Essential God
(QUICK READ) — “The belief in a God who is All-Powerful, wise, and good is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources.” – James Madison. Compiled by MARK STRAND. Quotes reprinted in HillFaith’s “The Faith…
TESTIMONIES: Violet Williams Had It Made. Then Jesus Said ‘Quit Your Job’
(FIVE-MINUTE VIEW) — Violet Williams completed her education with multiple advanced degrees in industrial engineering, then began a steady climb up the corporate ladder working in the automobile industry. “Every day is a new adventure and a new battle. I love seeing the cars roll off the assembly line,” she declares in the following 3:54…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Should Home-Schooling Be Banned?
America’s public school system has steadily declined in academic achievement compared to the rest of the world in most years for several decades, with a result that a growing percentage of American families are choosing to home-school. Even so, public education administrator and teacher union leaders, as well as academic education department authorities and non-profit…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: A Few Surprises in Hill Aides Closing Views on Biden
(THREE-MINUTE READ) — Ask congressional aides their view on an outgoing presidential administration and the responses can be expected to follow very much along partisan lines. So it is now with now-former Chief Executive Joe Biden. The overall rating of all responses (all of which are anonymous in the Capitol Pulse Surveys) was 37 percent…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: CATHERINE HAYES is now Executive Director of the GOP Doctors Caucus. Catherine comes to the caucus after 13 years with the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons, most recently as Senior Government Relations Director. Catherine is not a stranger to congressional staff roles, having first served as Legislative Correspondent…
CONTRADICTIONS: Wait a Minute! Did Jesus Lie to His Brothers?
(FIVE-MINUTE READ) — Jesus committed no sin during His 33 years on this earth, according to the Bible at, for example, II Corinthians 5:21 and Hebrews 4:15. He had to be the perfect man, the sinless sacrifice, in order to cover all the sins of those who accept Him as Lord and Savior. But hold…
HILL STAFF NEWS:
(THREE-MINUTE READ) NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM JOB OPENINGS: Courtesy of CNCT, the app that connects Hill staffers: Democrat Jobs Have a job available in your DEM office? Submit your job opening and let CNCT help you spread the word! House Democrat Job Bank Republican Jobs Have a job available in your GOP office? Submit your job opening and let CNCT…
QUICK TAKES: Did You Know MLK Jr. Backed Intelligent Design?
(ONE-MINUTE WATCH) — The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is known for many things, including especially his leadership of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, but there is something else about him that few Americans likely know. King was an advocate of Intelligent Design (ID), that is, the principle that the universe displays such…
TESTIMONIES: Mike Cohen’s Kryptonite Failed Him, But Not Jesus
(FOUR-MINUTE WATCH) — Mike Cohen grew up Jewish in an American society in which many Christians still shared their faith. Whenever one of them began talking to Mike about Jesus, however, he would take out his kryptonite and that would be the end of the conversation. But even kryptonite can fail and there came a…