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.
DID YOU KNOW: Maybe Early Christianity Exploded Because It Was Radically Unlike Pagan Deities
If you’ve been in a college classroom during the past several decades in which the history of religion came up, you almost certainly heard somebody — most likely the professor — make the case that Christianity “stole” or “adapted” many elements of the multiple pagan deities that flourished in the ancient world. One of the…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: LIZZ SHAVERS is the new Scheduler for Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) and her first full-time position on a congressional staff. Previously, Lizz was an Intern in the office of Rep. Trent Kelly (R-Miss.). She is a 2022 graduate of the University of Mississippi at Oxford in Psychology. TUCKER KNOTT returns to the…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Why Jesus Was the Most Compassionate Man Who Ever Lived
“Compassion” is a word we often hear in American society, especially if you happen to be working as a staff member for a senator or representative, or a committee, in Congress. We spend hundreds of billions of dollars every year to demonstrate our compassion toward the less fortunate among us. But is appropriating another $100…
STAFF NEWS: Job Openings on the Hill
Courtesy of CNCT, the app that connects Hill staffers: The Office of Congresswoman Terri Sewell is looking to hire a Scheduler. Interested candidates should send a resume and 3 professional references here. The Office of Congresswoman Suzan DelBene seeks a dynamic Press Assistant/Staff Assistant with strong digital media skills. To apply, please send your cover letter, resume, and two…
New Study in ‘Science’ Journal Affirms Key Measure of the Universe’s Fine Tuning
It’s not news that a growing number of scientists, philosophers and related advocates point to the Cosmological Constant — the rate at which planets, stars, and other elements of the universe are accelerating away from a central point — as evidence for fine-tuning, or Intelligent Design (ID). What is news is for one of the…
EXPLAIN THIS: How To Make A Worm, Without Choosing to Make A Worm
Ever hear of the C Elegans worm? Odds are the answer is no. And you’ve likely never seen one, either, because they are tiny, requiring magnification to see with any detail. C Elegans are Nematoda of about 1/20th of an inch in length. The C Elegans looks simple — it is, after all, “just” a…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week
Courtesy of Legistorm: NORA KOHLI steps into the duties of Communications Director for Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) following a stint in a similar position for Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY). Nora, an avid hiker, completed her BS in English in 2018 from Emory University. LAYNEE BUCKELS is now Communications Director for Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas). Before…
The Magician’s Twin: Why C.S. Lewis Struggled Over Intelligent Design
There has been a tremendous surge recently of interest in C.S. Lewis, the great British Christian apologist and spinner of wonderful childrens’ tales, thanks in great part to films like “Shadowland” and “The Reluctant Convert.” Now comes the Discovery Institute’s Evolution News (EN) with a superbly done short documentary that examines the multiple reasons Lewis…
GOOD QUESTION: Do Humans Have Souls?
That question in the title above may seem like a dumb one — either because “everybody knows they do” or “that’s just a fairy tale” — but the answer goes a long way toward shaping how and what we each think on a long list of relevant questions and issues. Not the least important of…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Here’s Why the Sun, Light and Photosynthesis Are Miraculous
Photosynthesis is the amazing process by which plants convert sunlight into food. But there’s much more to the relationship between the Sun, the light it continually emits and what plants do with that light once it reaches them in our atmosphere. As biologist Michael Denton explains in the following video from Discovery Science, one of…