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.
Bacteria With Machine Guns? Bacteria That Make Computer Chips?
Yesterday in this space, I presented a proposition that information, the prerequisite of all life, must be the result of conscious choice and will, which means it cannot be the product of random chance. In the following video, the Discover Institute’s Michael Behe, author of the increasingly influential “Darwin’s Black Box,” explores the incredible complexity…
THINK ABOUT THIS: If Information Is The Prerequisite For Creation, Then …
There is one sine qua non characteristic shared by every living thing that exists now, ever has existed or ever will exist — information that produces or enables a defining structure and purpose. That is a statement all reasonable advocates of evolutionary materialism and Intelligent Design ought to be able to confirm. So consider this:…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who Is Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week!
Courtesy of Legistorm: BLAKE STEVENS is leaving the newsroom of Knoxville’s WATE-TV and moving to the nation’s capital to take on duties as Press Secretary for Rep. John Rose (R-TN). Blake spent four years as a Reporter and Anchor for the station. He earned his BS in Communications Broadcasting and Sociology from the University of…
Scientist Describes Scientific Discoveries Some Atheists Don’t Want You to Know About
(Editor’s Note: This post has been updated throughout to reflect the proper spelling of Professor Hedin’s last name. My apologies to the good professor and HillFaith’s many readers for this lapse in editorial disciple.) Professor and physicist Eric Hedin taught a Seminar in Physical Sciences course entitled “The Boundaries of Science” for six years at…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Here’s the Flax You Need to Know About Rahab the Prostitute
“Little” details can sometimes provide enormously important clues to the bigger story and there is a superb illustration of this reality in the Biblical account of how Rahab the Prostitute in Jericho hid the two Jewish spies. The nation of Israel has completed its 40-year wandering in the Wilderness and is now poised on…
EXPLAIN THIS: Is It By Chance or Design That Geckos Can Walk on Ceilings Without Using Suction Cups?
If you’ve watched five minutes of TV in recent months, you’ve seen the Gecko, the Aussie accented lizard advertising for GEICO, the insurance company. GEICO has turned its Gecko into a marketing phenom so effectively that millions of Americans think of the insurance company as soon as they hear the word “Gecko.” But the real…
Why Jesus’ Resurrection is Likely the Best Documented Historic Event Ever
Today is Easter Sunday. Two-thousand years ago on this day, Jesus’ disciples, beginning with Mary Magdalene, began claiming His tomb was empty and they had seen and talked with Him because He had been resurrected from the dead. If that claim is true, it is the most remarkable fact of history and the central event…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: CHAD TENPENNY put in 24 years working for Sen. Robert Dole, Sen. Pat Roberts and Sen. Roger Marshall, all Kansas Republicans, and now he is leaving the Hill to start a Private Law Practice focused on Government Affairs, General Counsel Services and Political Consulting. Congrats on a great Hill career, Chad. Moving…