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.
STAFF NEWS: Your Boss Just Won. Or Lost. What Now For You?
And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Matthew 6:30 Elections on Capitol Hill are always accompanied with anticipation and anxiety. The change that comes with it is easier to navigate for some than others. This election and the…
SCIENCE AND FAITH: Meet the Oldest Continuously Living Organism on the Earth
(SIX-MINUTE READ/WATCH) — It’s the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, found only in the high altitude regions of Eastern California, Nevada and Utah. These twisted, gnarly, twisted trees have endured the gale force winds, extreme cold and lightning-sparked fires for approximately four millennia. Think about that — When Egypt was becoming the world’s first great empire,…
CONTRADICTIONS: No, God Does Not Glorify Killing Babies in Psalm 137
(FIVE-MINUTE READ/WATCH) — Among the most frequently cited verses in the Old Testament by skeptics and critics of Christianity is Psalm 137. In verses 8 and 9 of the Psalm, critics like Dan Barker argue that this is “worst verse in the Bible” because it is God encouraging the Israelites to dash the babies of…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Thomas Jefferson’s Farewell Advice to a Namesake
“Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered, be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss.” — Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Jefferson Smith,…
TESTIMONIES: Country Artist Walker Hayes
(10-MINUTE READ/WATCH) — If you follow Country Music, as millions of Americans do, you are no doubt familiar with the name “Walker Hayes.” He’s not only a successful song-writer and performer, but he also, with his long-time friend Craig Allen Cooper, is co-author of a New York Times-best seller, “Glad You’re Here: Two Unlikely Friends…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Congressional Aides Nearly Unanimous Feds Should Regulate AI
(TWO-MINUTE READ) — Getting nearly everybody to agree on anything has been all but impossible recently on the floor of Congress and the same is true of the 12,000+ congressional aides who do most of the daily work of the legislative process. So it’s news when 86 percent of all responding staffers agree that the…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Is This Election The Most Important Ever?
(FOUR-MINUTE READ) — They say it over and over again every two years — “this is the most important election ever because if Candidate X wins, then all will be lost, but if Candidate Y wins, then all of our problems will be solved and we’ll never again have to worry about them.” As is…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
(THREE-MINUTE READ) — NEW HIRES: COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: JAY BARGHAVA is the new Communications Director for Democrats on the House Budget Committee, working for Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.). Jay is returning to the Hill after spending more than a year at Powell Tate as Vice-President. He is a 2016 graduate of George Washington University with…
CONTRADICTIONS: Did the Angel Appear to Joseph or Mary?
(TWO-MINUTE READ) — Let’s see now, the Gospel of Luke tells us an angel appeared to Mary before she gave birth to the baby Jesus, while the Gospel of Matthew tells us that it was Joseph who got the angelic visitation. Blatant contradiction? Does different mean contradictory? Can the Yankees come back from losing the…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Faith Was Washington’s Order of the Day
(ONE-MINUTE READ) — “The General most earnestly requires, and expects, a due observance of those articles of war, established for the Government of the army, which forbid profane cursing, swearing, and drunkenness; And in like manner requires and expects, of all Officers and Soldiers, not engaged on actual duty, a punctual attendance on divine Service,…