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• History bears witness to Easter’s power

  By Quin Hillyer / 17 April 2022

  

  (April 15) Thank goodness God can transcend syllogism. If Christians are to think literally and purely logically on this Easter weekend, we would wonder what makes the crucifixion and resurrection […]

   

• How St. Peter was like Jonah (without the whale)

  By Quin Hillyer / 28 August 2017

  

  Note from Quin:  My wife, Therese, a businesswoman, joins other lay worshippers in a weekly prayer group called Daughters of Mary in which (among other things) one participant each week provides a […]

   

• Love calms our turbulent waters

  By Quin Hillyer / 15 August 2017

  

  By Quin Hillyer at PJ Media; The author Madeleine L’Engle, most famous for A Wrinkle in Time, interspersed all sorts of Christian references into her series of novels for adolescent readers, albeit […]

   

• A Fish Story Well Worth Believing: Faith

  By Quin Hillyer / 7 August 2017

  

  By Quin Hillyer at PJ Media; Two years ago on my own little website I wrote a short reflection on today’s Gospel reading (or John’s version thereof) about Jesus’ famous “feeding of the 5,000” with merely […]

   

• Why the Spirit is THE Truth

  By Quin Hillyer / 22 May 2017

  

  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 […]

   

• Does Jesus promise what he doesn’t deliver?

  By Quin Hillyer / 15 May 2017

  

  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, […]

   

• Why did Jesus become a shape-shifter?

  By Quin Hillyer / 2 May 2017

  

  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 […]

   

• Sketchy Sightings of a Resurrected Christ?

  By Quin Hillyer / 28 April 2017

  

  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 […]

   

• Was the Resurrection Real?

  By Quin Hillyer / 20 April 2017

  

  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, […]

   

• Don’t rush past Palm Sunday

  By Quin Hillyer / 13 April 2017

  

  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 […]