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.
QUESTION: Do You Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist? Or How Is Your TOE?
Proponents of atheism like Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking and Sam Harris have become prominent public figures, thanks to their intelligence and debating skills, science knowledge and formidable public presences. They are helping prompt the renewal of a much-needed public debate in the U.S. and Europe on the Theory of Everything (TOE) questions: Why is there…
UPDATE: Kneecap Healing, If Not Quite Fast Enough For Yours Truly
A number of folks have inquired about the status of my recovery from the shattered kneecap I suffered back in February, so tonight seems like a good time to provide an update. Essentially, everything is on schedule as expected. I started physical therapy a couple of weeks ago and have gone from about 50 degrees…
Here’s The Big Bang Explained In 10 Easy-To-Grasp Steps (Thank You, Denise Chow!)
I have no idea what, if any, spiritual views Denise Chow may hold, but she posted a remarkable post on space.com in 2011 in which she describes the history of the universe from the Big Bang to Now. No, I’m not making this up. Some of the specific details may have been updated and become…
Five Biggest Staff Problems That Hurt Congress and America
One of the first things done by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi after taking control of the big gavel was to appoint the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress to recommend measures to bring the First Branch into the 21st Century of organizational management. In its first hearing, the modernization committee heard testimony…
Eight VIP Things You Should Know About Working On The Hill
Patricia Murphy covers national politics for the Daily Beast and is a former Hill staffer, most recently working as communications director for then-Sen. Max Cleland (D-Ga.) from 2001 to 2003. Murphy also writes a column for Roll Call and has a great piece today there based on her interviews with a number of present and…
Is The Human Brain Just A Fallible Machine?
Dr. Rosalind Picard is founder and director of MIT’s Affective Computing Research Group. She is also a professing Christian who was raised in a secular home. Dr. Shahram Koshbin is a Harvard neurology professor from Iran whose mother was Jewish and whose father was of the Bahai faith. He wonders whether religiosity is the same…
Who Created God? Oxford’s John Lennox Responds To Richard Dawkins
What are the most difficult questions to answer? Solid candidates are those which by virtue of how they are posed eliminate the only logical and correct answers. Who created God is one such question that is invariably heard when two or more intelligent people begin talking about the most important issues in life.
Oxford Mathematician Explains Why He’s A Follower Of Jesus
Only stupid or insecure or misguided people become followers of Jesus, right? That is an attitude one inevitably encounters while working for a U.S. senator or representative. But then there is Professor John Lennox, the Irish mathematician from Oxford university, who not only is incredibly intelligent but also among the world’s most effective apologists for…
How Do We Know The ‘First Cause’ Is The Christian God?
Most people when they think about it can agree there has to be a First Cause — or the Uncaused Cause — to explain the existence of the universe, including the Earth, time, men and women, etc. But how do we know this First Cause is the God named in the Christian scriptures? Dr. Frank…
What About The Evidence For Other Religions Besides Christianity? Or Is There Any?
With the explosion of scientific, historical, logical and archeological based apologetics on behalf of the truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the question must be asked about the evidence for other religions besides Christianity. What about the evidence for the validity of Judaism, Hinduism or Islam? Isn’t it logically necessary to do a thorough…