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.
STAFF NEWS: Pelosi Raises Aides’ Salary Cap
In one of her final acts as Speaker of the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) raised the salary cap for congressional aides, boosting it to $212,100 from the present $203,700. She announced the increase in a Dear Colleague Letter: “As you know, our hard-working, patriotic congressional staffers are integral to the functioning of the House…
What Thomas Jefferson Actually Meant on ‘Separation of Church and State’
It will be the 220th anniversary come this New Years Day of Thomas Jefferson’s response from the White House to the letter he had received from the Danbury Baptists expressing their concern about the protection of religion liberty in America. Conventional wisdom holds that there are only two possible views about Jefferson’s famous letter and it’s…
THINK ABOUT THIS: Law of Biogenesis, Consciousness And The Origin of Life
Our bodies, like the Earth, Moon, Sun and stars in the universe, are made of physical matter. There is space, time and matter. We are made of the latter, we exist in a specific space and we do so for a particular amount of time. But we also have consciousness, which has no physical…
A Request For Prayer
Earlier today, I met an individual I did not previously know who was providing a service to me in their shop. As we talked, we each offered the usual small talk about Christmas and we spent a good big of time on the subject of our dogs. But then the individual broke down and shared…
Unto You A Child Is Born
Luke 2: The Birth of Jesus Christ2 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town. 4 And Joseph also went up from…
YOUR DESIGNED BODY: The Two ‘Hard Problems” Your Body Must Solve
A hard problem is one that must be solved or the whole enterprise fails. In the context of the human body, that means an unsolvable hard problem results in death, so there’s no middle ground – either the hard problem is solved or it’s not. In the following 2:40 video, “Your Designed Body” co-author, computer…
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…