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.
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STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Movin’ On Up The Hill This Week (Might Be Somebody You Know!)
HALIE CRAIG is back with Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) as a Policy Advisor on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee after a two year absence during which she was at Facebook as a Public Policy Associate Manager. Prior to heading to Facebook, Halie worked for Toomey for more than two years. Halie is…
THE CHOSEN: Here’s What You Are Missing If You Aren’t Watching
“The Chosen” is a phenomenon. It’s a trail-blazer in terms of crowd-funded entertainment, and, as a recurring series, it’s a precedent-setting approach to religious programming. Best of all, the quality of production, the tremendous and obvious talent of the actors, and, most important, the scripts are faithful to the Bible. In the following video, Dallas…
C.S. Lewis, Up Close and Personal
Millions of people around the world have read something written by C.S. Lewis, the Englishman who wrote such classics as “The Screwtape Letters,” “Mere Christianity,” “The Abolition of Man” and, perhaps most famously, “The Chronicles of Narnia.” But the story about the man himself is not nearly known so well. Now for the first time…
EXPLAIN THIS: The Miracle of Mathematics
There are two kinds of people in the world, those who like math and the rest of us sane people who find it difficult to get beyond basic everyday arithmetic. But all of us should be thankful for the fact of mathematics because without it, we wouldn’t have, among much else, most of the products…
SCIENCE UPRISING: No, the ‘Fossil Record’ Does NOT Prove Evolution
We’ve all seen the illustrations showing the monkey on all fours followed by a succession of increasingly upright, steadily more human-appearing figures that allegedly demonstrates the course of evolution that produced us all. Only ignorant bigots who never got past the Scopes thing question the illustration, right? The truth is that there is more —…
STAFF NEWS: Look Who’s Moving Up on The Hill This Week (Might Be Somebody You Know)
JOSH KARETNY served Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) as Acting Chief of Staff and is now moving over to be Senior Counsel. Josh has been with the Rhode Island lawmaker since 2007. He received his Law Degree from the New York School of Law in 2005 and his BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania…
EXPLAIN THIS: If We Humans Are Just Meat, What About Our Minds?
To understand the most essential issue that separates secular materialists and Intelligent Design advocates, it is only necessary to contemplate how each camp views the human mind. Here’s how Richard Dawkins, one of the most well-known figures in the former camp puts it in his book “River Out of Eden:” “In a universe of electrons…
EV OR ID? – Why Heme Presents an Unsolvable Dilemma for Evolution
Normally, one starts at the beginning, but in this case, let’s start at the end of a recent analysis published by Evolution News & Science Today (EN) concerning Heme, the precursor to Hemoglobin, the molecule that transfers oxygen in blood. “To nail the case for design, consider the level of exquisite control in the next…
EXPLAIN THIS: If God Exists, Why Is There Evil and Suffering?
It’s among the most frequently heard criticisms of Christianity because it appears to present an unsolvable dilemma for anybody trying to understand reality – How can there be a loving, all-powerful God when there is so much evil and suffering? If God truly exists as a loving being, then why would He allow there to…