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 NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: ERIC SNEDDON is the new Scheduling/Operations Director for Rep. Julia Brownley (D-Calif.). Prior to his move to the Brownley operation, Eric was Government Affairs Assistant for America’s Credit Unions. He earned his BA in Political Science and Government in 2019 from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). REGAN BRUNO makes…
CONSIDER THIS: Fish Story, Part Two
Regular readers of HillFaith will recall this post from January 24, “A Fish Story That Points to God.” Based on an absolutely amazing video produced by the John 10:10 Project, the post told the story of how the five species of the Pacific Salmon have a driving urge to return to the place where they…
LONG STORY SHORT: About That Myth of ‘Junk’ DNA
Making predictions can leave you looking like a total dummy. Trust me, I learned this lesson the hard way after predicting in print on the Friday before the 2012 presidential election that Mitt Romney would defeat then-President Barack Obama by three percentage points on the following Tuesday. That said, lots of people continue to make…
TESTIMONIES: Meditation, Psychics, Chakra, Etc. Etc. Didn’t ‘Fix’ Nicole. Jesus Did
Nicole went from having what seemed like a great life to one marked by inner turmoil, self-doubt and a restless search for something, anything to fill a void in her heart and give her a deep sense of inner peace. So for a long time, Nicole went from one false god to another. It started…
HILL STAFF NEWS: Bigger House Staff Salaries Mean Smaller Holiday Bonuses
Congressional aides working on the House side of Capitol Hill benefitted in 2023 from higher average salaries, but there was a slight catch in that good news, according to research by Legistorm. Holiday bonuses weren’t as generous in 2023 as they had been in previous years. “House staffers working for member offices received 11.9 percent…
CONSIDER THIS: To Understand the Meaning of a Solar Eclipse
By Jay Richards The Sun and the Moon are not just the same shape, but the same apparent size in the sky. It’s this happy arrangement that produces total solar eclipses as seen from the earth’s surface. Americans got a chance to view such an eclipse on April 8 — an event we won’t see again…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: WILL MCPHERSON moves into the Chief of Staff slot for Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) after serving the Oklahoma Republican as State Policy Adviser, Field Director and District Director. Will earned his MPA in 2014 from the University of Oklahoma in Public Policy and his BA in Public Affairs from OU in 2012….
HILL STAFF NEWS: Most of Surveyed Aides Say Religion Plays Positive Role in American Life
Considering the accumulating survey data from Barna, Gallup and other pollsters showing a marked decline in recent years in the number of Americans who regularly attend church (i.e. at least twice a month), a recent finding on how congressional aides view the role of religion in American life may well come as a surprise. The…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: CHRIS WINGATE is the new Military Legislative Assistant working for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Chris is an Army Medical Corps Aviator, with six deployments under his belt. He received his MS in Sports Management from Liberty University in 2014 and his BS in Radio, Television and Digital Communications in 2003 from Texas…