How St. Peter was like Jonah (without the whale)
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 […]
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Love calms our turbulent waters
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 […]
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A Fish Story Well Worth Believing: Faith
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 […]
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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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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 […]
