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.
GOOD QUESTION: Is There Meaning to Life?
It’s among the most basic of all questions – does your life have meaning? Why are you here? Does your presence on this Earth make any difference for any reason for anybody else anywhere? Give yourself a few minutes to think about those questions. It’s hard to even know how to think about them in…
GOOD QUESTION: Why Doesn’t God Save Everybody?
God is all-powerful and all loving, right? But not everybody goes to Heaven? So why doesn’t God just dump all this stuff about Heaven, Hell, sin, repentance and salvation, and bring every human being He’s ever created to Heaven? Good question and one that is often heard by Dr. Frank Turek of cross-examined.org and “I…
STAFF NEWS: People Are Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: AILEEN MA moves in at the House Committee on Education and Labor as a Professional Staff Member, covering primary and secondary education issues, working for Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA). Aileen previously was a Director at the Penn Hill Group. She is a 2014 BA graduate of the University of California at Berkley…
Meet the Untangler of DNA Knots: The Amazing Topoisomerase Molecular Machine
If you have ever done computer programming, you know all about “bugs” that creep in but aren’t noticed until after the software is used. That’s when the de-bugging process begins and updates are issued to the original. Those debugging and updating processes don’t happen without a programmer, who is the “Intelligent Designer.” The same thing…
A Neurosurgeon’s Response to Atheists Who Deny We Humans Have Free Will
Which way will you choose? Or has your choice already been made for you? Photo by Alexander Schimmeck on Unsplash Dr. Michael Egnor is a neurosurgeon and Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at State University of New York, Stony Brook. He’s also a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence….
Three Big Things You Can Do Today To Help HillFaith
HillFaith is devoted, first, to sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the 20,000 mostly young men and women who work on Capitol Hill in Congress for individual senators, representatives, committees and congressional agencies. They are typically in the background, yet profoundly influential in American public policy. Second, HillFaith is dedicated to sharing the best…
LESSONS FROM HISTORY (7): Limits to Knowledge; No Limits to Depravity
By Lee Dise Seventh 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 this week on HillFaith, Lee offers…
LESSONS FROM HISTORY (6): Hume, Kant, and Limits to Knowledge
By Lee Dise Sixth 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 this week on HillFaith, Lee offers…
LESSONS FROM HISTORY (5): Man’s Reason on the Throne
By Lee Dise Fifth 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 this week on HillFaith, Lee offers…
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