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.
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: GABI GIES has moved into the Deputy Scheduler position for Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.) after previously serving as a Legislative Assistant for Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.). Gabby is a 2023 graduate of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville with a BS in Political Science and Psychology. NATALIE RUDMAN is the new Scheduler…
IRREDUCIBLE MIND (Part 5): How Can Someone With Partial or No Brain Have Consciousness?
There has been a raft of Near-Death Experiences (NDE) reported in recent decades and those reports have generated a growing body of clinical analyses seeking to account for them that directly challenge the idea that consciousness is created by our brains. It’s not just from NDEs, however, from which significant evidence that consciousness does not…
IRREDUCIBLE MIND (Part 4): And Then There’s Quantum Biology
You’ve no doubt heard of Quantum Mechanics (QM), but did you know there is a growing field of scientific inquiry that applies QM to biology? Naturally, it is otherwise known as Quantum Biology (QB) and it appears to explain a lot that traditional biology can’t. Things like how birds that migrate back and forth over…
IRREDUCIBLE MIND (Part 3): Why Materialists Can’t Fully Explain Consciousness
Imagine for a moment that you have the unique ability to scan the left-hand page of an open book with your left eye and the right-hand page with your right eye. Would that be amazing? Believe it or not, Kim Peek, the man on whom the 1988 movie “Rain Man” was based, could do that….
IRREDUCIBLE MIND (Part 2): What Consciousness and Colors Like Yellow Have in Common
If that headline makes no sense to you at first glance, that is precisely the point. If you had to describe for a blind person the color Yellow in such vivid terms that they would immediately recognize it if they regained sight, what would you say? See what I mean? You can relate your experience…
IRREDUCIBLE MIND (Part 1): How Do We Get Consciousness If We’re Just Material Objects?
Ever hear of the “Hard Problem of Consciousness” in science? If you Google that term, you will quickly see that topping the list of unanswered questions about human beings and life is this intellectual challenge: If we are made up of nothing other than physical material, how can we also have non-material minds and thus…
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: About the Historical Evidence That Jesus is Alive?
Unlike every other religion in the world, Christianity is based upon the life, death and alleged resurrection of its main character, Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the Son of Man. Salvation is the result of having a living, personal relationship with Him as your Lord and Savior, not on you performing enough good…
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Great Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: SYDNEY WESTWICK moves into her first full-time congressional position, signing up as a Staff Assistant on the House Budget Committee working for Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas). Sydney previously Interned on the staff of Rep. Blaine Lutketmeyer (R-Mo.). She is a 2023 graduate of Salisbury University with a BS in Public Health. Also…
SCIENCE AND FAITH: Chameleons Are Wonders of Creation
Calling somebody a chameleon in Washington, D.C. is almost always considered an insult or criticism because it suggests that person can change “color” — his or her politics, friends, food preferences and much more — any time when doing so is convenient or thought to be advantageous for them in some way. But the actual…
THINK ABOUT THIS: How Could Jesus So Accurately Predict the Fall of Jerusalem Four Decades Before It Happened?
When the Roman Legions poured through the massive walls around Jerusalem and proceeded to utterly destroy the great city in 70 AD, they did so just as Jesus Christ had told His disciples more than four decades before. The evidence that demonstrates how amazingly accurate was Jesus’s prediction isn’t just in the Bible. As Kyle…