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.
LESSONS FROM HISTORY (INTRO): Christian Belief and the Consequences of Ideas
By Lee Dise Introduction of a seven-part series. EDITOR’S NOTE: Lee Dise is an accomplished trombonist and computer programmer, who also happens to know a great deal about things like philosophy, theology, history and related disciplines. He’s also a born-again Christian and in this multi-installment series appearing each day, starting today on HillFaith, Lee will…
WITNESSES: Adrienne Johnson Explains Why She’s No Longer an Atheist
Adrienne Johnson is chief of staff for Dennis Prager’s Prager U outfit. If you had met her a decade or more ago and known that today she would be where she is now, you would have scoffed, or laughed. As PragerU explains in the preface to the following video, Adrienne was “once a cynical atheist,…
WORKING ON THE HILL: Should Congressional Aides Get a COLA?
Social Security recipients receive annual Cost-of-Living-Adjustments (COLA) that are often the subject of congressional action, debate and correspondence. Some corporations provide salary COLAs for some or all of their employees. But what about COLAs for the 20,000 or so mostly younger men and women who work on Capitol Hill for an individual senator or representative’s…
Irreducible Complexity, the Incredible Miracle of DNA and Intelligent Design
When Charles Darwin wrote “The Origin of the Species” in 1859, the conventional wisdom held that the single-cell ameba was the original starting point in the evolutionary development of life on Earth. The conventional wisdom of the mid-19th Century also held that the single-cell ameba was quite simple, hardly more than a tiny glob of…
STAFF NEWS: People Are Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week!
Courtesy of Legistorm: JAMES BUCKLEY moves into the Legislative Correspondent slot for Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), after serving a stint as a Staff Assistant. James is a 2020 University of Kansas graduate in Political Science and Journalism. KATHY ZHU is now handling Scheduler duties for Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas). Kathy formerly was a Political Analyst…
No, Nathan Lents Did NOT Refute the Eye as Evidence of Design
Among the most familiar proofs for the existence of God is the Watchmaker argument (See below for a quick video explanation of the Watchmaker argument). That is, you are walking along in a field and look down to see a beautiful Rolex watch lying on the ground. Your immediate thought is that it appeared there…
STAFF NEWS: People Are Movin’ On Up The Hill!
Courtesy of Legistorm: There’s a new Office Manager working for Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) and her name is DESHONAE LUSTER. DeShonae is making the move up after serving Cherfilus-McCormick as Executive Assistant. She is a 2021 MA graduate of South University in Health/Healthcare Administration/Management and a 2020 graduate of Bethune-Cookman University in Health and Exercise…
STAFF NEWS: One-in-Eight Hill Staffers Living in D.C. Paid Less Than a Living Wage
Congressional aides in junior level staff positions and living in the District of Columbia are typically paid low salaries, but a new analysis of compensation and cost-of-living data shows one in eight of them receive less than a living wage. “For many job-seekers who don’t have financial help from relatives or time for an additional…
SCIENCE AND FAITH: What About the Multiverse Theory?
Consider this: If something exists, it has either always existed or it had a beginning. Since science is virtually unanimous that our universe had a beginning — that is, a “Big Bang” — then it becomes logically necessary to explain how and why that beginning took place. In other words, the great issue of Creation…