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: Muslim Convert on How He Found Jesus
(QUICK READ) — The following is the text of a post on X by Shahriq Khan, a Muslim convert to Christianity. Here he explains some of the key factors that led him to a saving faith in and personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. Pray for Shahriq: When I was Muslim, I used to…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?
(6:30 VIEWING) — Why do bad things happen to good people if there is a good God who made the universe and controls everything that happens in it? That may be the classic question at the root of the loss of faith by many who call themselves atheists. God can’t be good if He allows…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Open Positions. Helpful Tips. Veteran Advice.
MOVING UP: Courtesy of Legistorm: KENNEDY CUMMINS is moving into the Professional Staff Member position on the Senate Finance Committee working for the chairman, Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) after serving as a Legislative Correspondent in Crapo’s personal office. Kennedy is a 2025 graduate of Boise State University with a BA in Political Science. ANGELICA ESPINOZA…
TESTIMONIES: This Neurosurgeon’s Work on Human Brains Led Him to Christ
(10:24 VIEWING) — Dr. Michael Egnor grew up in a “non-religious home,” so he didn’t have the benefit of being exposed at an early age to the claims of Jesus Christ to be the Way, the Truth and the Life, nor His claim of resurrection from the dead. Egnor was an atheist and a materialist,…
FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: John Adams Calls the Bible the Best Book
(QUICK READ) — It’s all but impossible to find a more important member of the Founding Generation than John Adams of Massachusetts. He helped Thomas Jefferson write the Declaration of Independence and later served as Ambassador to France. Adams came from a New England Congregationalist background, and he was extremely well-educated in the classics of…
THIS IS HUGE: God and the Astronomers
(5:49 VIEWING) — If you were guessing, would you say a pastor or an astronomer was most likely the author of this quote: “Astronomy leads us to a universe created out of nothing”? If a pastor said it, you might well dismiss it as more a belief than a fact. If an astronomer is the…
HILL STAFF VIEWS: Most Aides Want Subpoena Power for New Office of Congressional Conduct
(212 WORDS) — Among the multiple proposals being considered for increasing the accountability and transparency of Member conduct and operations is creation of a new Office of Congressional Conduct. Given the extraordinary independence and power provided by Article 1 of the Constitution to Congress, and by extension to individual senators and representatives, adding another entity…
HILL STAFF JOB NEWS: Open Positions. Helpful Tips. Veteran Advice.
JOB MOVES: Courtesy of Legistorm: SHERIDAN P. O’ KELLY makes the move up from Senior Legislative Assistant to Policy Adviser to Rep. Sean Casten (D-ILL). Sheridan’s first job on the Hill was Legislative Assistant to Casten, beginning in November 2023. He is a 2021 BA graduate of the University of Virginia in Media Studies and…
AMANDA REPORTS: Where Do Bees Get Their Smarts?
(589 WORDS) — Who knew the genius bees use to make delicious honey for us doesn’t stop there? Research highlighted by the Discovery Institute leads to a key question about goal-directed behaviors among bees and the origin of such abilities. In an article “Bee-ing There: Innovative Behavior by Bees,” for the Discovery Institute’s Science &…
CONSIDER THIS: How To Build A Round Worm
(9:39 VIEWING) — If you’ve ever dug your hand into a pile of compost, you may well have come in contact with an example of the C. elegans Nematode, which is made up of about 1,000 individual cells. This tiny creature is better known as a Round Worm. Seeming at first glance to be so…