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.
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…
GOOD QUESTION: Why Is It So Hard To Live The Christian Life?
Please don’t think the headline on this post is intended to limit the readership only to those who are professing Christians. To the contrary, it is even more important for those who aren’t to have an accurate concept of what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ as your eternal Lord and Savior….
HILL STAFF NEWS: New Hires, Job Promotions, Open Positions, Big Opportunities
COURTESY OF LEGISTORM: A.J. MANANDIC is the new Press Secretary working for Rep. Young Kim (R-Calif.). A.J. comes to the Kim operation after a stint as an Account Executive at ROKK Solutions, LLC. She is a 2022 cum laude graduate of George Washington University with a BA in International Affairs and Security Policy. JAMES GOMEZ…
CONTRADICTIONS: Where Were Joseph and Mary From, Nazareth, Bethlehem, or Somewhere Else?
Some critics claim the New Testament is not a trustworthy source of information about Jesus or any of the details of His life, death and resurrection because of alleged contradictions. One example of such allegations is the claim the Gospels of Matthew and Luke offer conflicting versions of from where Joseph and Mary came and…
CONSIDER THIS: Here’s What Those ‘He Gets Us’ Spots Don’t Get
If you watched the Super Bowl, odds are you saw at least one of those “Jesus: He Gets Us” spots that were designed to pitch a sanitized, non-critical version of Christ. Over at The Stream, John Zmirak lays out in convincing fashion why those spots just don’t get the truth of the Gospel: It isn’t…
TESTIMONIES: Pregnant and Abandoned, Laura Chose Life and God
Laura became pregnant before marrying Mike. When Mike found out, he told Laura to either get an abortion or forget him. Laura chose life and bore Hannah as a single mother. The rest of Laura’s story includes many tears, including the loss of her much-loved Father and a challenging marriage with Vince that almost didn’t…