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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Shine the Light — or Keep it Secret?
By Quin Hillyer at PJ Media; The Bible contains numerous examples of passages that seem to contradict each other, some of them quite directly. One of my favorite contradictions involves […]
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Understanding the light of salvation
By Quin Hillyer at PJ Media; One of the easiest, most common, most readily understandable metaphors is that of “light” representing goodness and “darkness” either evil or ignorance. This is […]
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Saint Joseph Obeyed; So Should We
By Quin Hillyer at PJ Media, published Dec. 18; In this week’s Gospel, we are treated to one of the most singular examples of graceful humility seen anywhere in the […]
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The psalms, the Gospel… and Bruce Springsteen?
By Quin Hillyer at PJ Media; Last week, this column ended by celebrating the Lord’s joy: We should accept the gift of God’s creation with great gratitude, and, yes, with […]
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Sunday Reflections, July 5, 2015: The Call to Service
Today’s readings are: 2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10; Psalm 48; 2 Corinthians 12:2-10; and Mark 6:1-13. Especially at first, I don’t know what to make of them: I can’t figure out how they all fit […]
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Sunday Reflections, May 24
Forgive a digression from (most of) today’s readings, but it is not very often that Pentecost falls on the day before Memorial Day, and those two celebrations are on my […]
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Sunday Reflections, April 19
Sometimes a week’s chosen readings don’t lend themselves, to my mind, to anything even approaching great insights. Such is the case with today’s readings: Acts 3:12-19 as the first lesson, […]
