Is ‘The Shack’s’ love a little out of place?
By Quin Hillyer at PJ Media; Even if evil can somehow be explained away, random suffering still poses serious faith-based dilemmas. This week I watched the movie The Shack (2017), based on […]
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Why the Spirit is THE Truth
By Quin Hillyer at PJ Media; In this week’s Gospel reading from John, Jesus gets specific: It’s not just a “spirit of niceness” or a “spirit of kindness” or a […]
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Does Jesus promise what he doesn’t deliver?
By Quin Hillyer at PJ Media; The last two lines of this week’s standard Gospel reading appear to contain an untruth. “I will do whatever you ask in my name, […]
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Are you bored with the 23rd Psalm?
The assigned psalm for this week is by far the most familiar one in the Bible, namely the 23rd. It is recited at plenty of weddings, at some baptisms, at […]
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Why did Jesus become a shape-shifter?
by Quin Hillyer at PJ Media; The Revised Common Lectionary’s Gospel reading for April 30 is the story of the two disciples meeting Jesus on the road to Emmaus and listening […]
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Sketchy Sightings of a Resurrected Christ?
By Quin Hillyer at PJ Media; In the entire New Testament, the passage that is perhaps the most frustrating to me is from this week’s Gospel. The passage is a […]
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Was the Resurrection Real?
Last week’s PJ Media column on faith by Quin Hillyer, re-published here while we still technically are in Easter Week; As we celebrate Easter, we should also be reminded of, […]
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Don’t rush past Palm Sunday
Quin Hillyer’s column last week at PJ Media; It usually bothers me that the Passion story is the central Gospel read in many churches on Palm Sunday. Of course most […]
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Accept the offer of Jesus’ ‘living water’
By Quin Hillyer at PJ Media; We’ve all heard the warning against going to the same well once too often, but this week’s traditional readings remind us of what we […]
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Why modern literature still draws from ancient psalms
By Quin Hillyer at PJ Media; Psalms are, quite literally, the very poetry of faith, and provide something of the sound of music to an Old Testament that in other […]
