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.
SCIENCE UPRISING: No, the ‘Fossil Record’ Does NOT Prove Evolution
We’ve all seen the illustrations showing the monkey on all fours followed by a succession of increasingly upright, steadily more human-appearing figures that allegedly demonstrates the course of evolution that produced us all. Only ignorant bigots who never got past the Scopes thing question the illustration, right? The truth is that there is more —…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Moving Up on The Hill This Week (Might Be Somebody You Know)
JOSH KARETNY served Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) as Acting Chief of Staff and is now moving over to be Senior Counsel. Josh has been with the Rhode Island lawmaker since 2007. He received his Law Degree from the New York School of Law in 2005 and his BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania…
EXPLAIN THIS: If We Humans Are Just Meat, What About Our Minds?
To understand the most essential issue that separates secular materialists and Intelligent Design advocates, it is only necessary to contemplate how each camp views the human mind. Here’s how Richard Dawkins, one of the most well-known figures in the former camp puts it in his book “River Out of Eden:” “In a universe of electrons…
EV OR ID? – Why Heme Presents an Unsolvable Dilemma for Evolution
Normally, one starts at the beginning, but in this case, let’s start at the end of a recent analysis published by Evolution News & Science Today (EN) concerning Heme, the precursor to Hemoglobin, the molecule that transfers oxygen in blood. “To nail the case for design, consider the level of exquisite control in the next…
EXPLAIN THIS: If God Exists, Why Is There Evil and Suffering?
It’s among the most frequently heard criticisms of Christianity because it appears to present an unsolvable dilemma for anybody trying to understand reality – How can there be a loving, all-powerful God when there is so much evil and suffering? If God truly exists as a loving being, then why would He allow there to…
A Tale of Two Old Karmann Ghias
Unless you are a “car guy” like me, most folks reading this post on HillFaith likely will not have a clue about what a Karmann Ghia might be. The truth is that the Karmann Ghia was a Volkswagen Bug chassis with a body designed by an Italian designer, Carrozerria Ghia. The Karmann Ghia was sold…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Moving Up On The Hill This Week (Might Be Someone You Know)
LAUREN HOLLY is who you need to see about scheduling concerns with Sen. John Boozman (R-AR). Lauren previously served the Arkansas senator as Deputy Scheduler/Assistant to the Chief of Staff. She is a 2020 graduate of the University of Arkansas with a BA in Psychology and Political Science. TIANNA TORREJON is the new Staff Assistant…
EXPLAIN THIS: Why The ‘Telephone Game’ Doesn’t Apply to Jesus’ Parables
You remember the telephone game from when you were a kid, don’t you? One person whispers a message in the ear of the person sitting beside them, and then they turn to the person on their other side and repeat the message. And so on and so and so on. Off at the end, after six…