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.
WONDERS OF CREATION: Yes, Males CAN Have Babies … If They Are Seahorses
There are millions of species of life on this Earth, but only one of them features males who fertilize their unborn young, then carry them to term and deliver them. No, I am not pulling your leg – there are males who become pregnant and deliver babies. Baby seahorses, that is. Seahorses are cute characters…
One Solitary Life at the Heart of Christmas
On July 11,1926, a Baptist preacher stood before a congregation of mostly younger Christians assembled in the Baptist Young People’s Union in Los Angeles and delivered a sermon with three simple words for a title. James Allan Francis was the preacher and “One Solitary Life” was the title of a sermon that captured the miraculous…
Merry Christmas From The Moon
Fifty-four years ago, three American Astronauts — Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders — became the first human beings ever to orbit the moon. That would have been an amazing accomplishment in itself if none of this illustrious trio had said a word. But, knowing they would have what at that point in history…
EXPLAIN THIS: Where Did the First Living Cell’s DNA Come From?
A central issue in the continuing debate between advocates of Evolutionary Naturalism (EN) and those pointing to Intelligent Design (ID) is that of “irreducible complexity,” or the dilemma of necessarily multi-sequential development. Put simply, the issue is EN posits development of changes in life forms come about through step-by-step adaption as those that contribute to…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: ADRIENNE CHRISTIAN returns to the Hill as Chief of Staff for Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC) after a stint as Chief of Staff for the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance. Adrienne is a 1997 graduate of Mississippi University for Women with a BA and a 2001 graduate of the University of Memphis with an MS…
Would You Take Pascal’s Wager?
Blaise Pascal was a 17th Century (1623-1662) French philosopher, mathematician and theologian who, among much else, is known for a wager that he used to illustrate his view of why it is rational to believe in the existence of God. Unfortunately, Pascal passed away before his book in which he laid out the wager —…
YOUR DESIGNED BODY: The Cascading Problem of the Problems With Oxygen
Among the most frustrating of experiences is to encounter a problem that must be solved, but in the process of doing so, more and more problems are discovered and in short order you have a cascade of them on your hands. Engineer Steve Laufmann, author of the superb “Your Designed Body,” knows a thing or…
All About ‘It’s A Wonderful Life,’ the Webb Telescope and God
Frank Capra’s delightful “It’s A Wonderful Life” is likely the most popular Christmas movie ever made, but something few people know about this classic is what it shares with the James Webb Telescope, the most powerful and remarkable such device ever made by man. As the title of the following video from the John 10:10…
The Problem Of Truth And Why It Requires Courage
Martin Gurri, in his “Truth and Its Consequences”1, argues that, “Truth, for the human animal, is always partial, temporary, and local.” While he recognizes our general belief that “Truth – complete accordance with reality – must be one and eternal,” he concludes that, for us, it is not. Citing Plato’s Ideals, Popper and Kuhn and…