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Wil Gafney

https://www.workingpreacher.org/authors/wil-gafney

The Rev. Dr. Gafney is associate professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School and is an Episcopal priest canonically resident in the Diocese of Pennsylvania and licensed in the Diocese of Fort Worth. A former (...)

Commentary on Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28

https://www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries/revised-common-lectionary/ordinary-19/commentary-on-genesis-371-4-12-28-5

Unlike the rest of Genesis, which comprises short, episodic stories that can usually stand alone, Genesis 37-50 reads like a short story or novella. Sometimes referred to as the “Joseph cycle,” this set of chapters (...)

August 10, 2014

Commentary on Joel 2:23-32

https://www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries/revised-common-lectionary/ordinary-30-3/commentary-on-joel-223-32

The prophet Joel writes in response to an ecological disaster, a plague of locusts that exceeded their regular breeding and feeding cycles. His words are difficult to break into individual sermons. The internal markers in (...)

October 24, 2010

Commentary on Ruth 1:1-18

https://www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries/revised-common-lectionary/ordinary-31-2/commentary-on-ruth-11-18-3

People are often surprised to find that the words from Ruth 1:16b-17, often heard at weddings, are not about the joys of beginning a new life together. Instead these words are an affirmation of Ruth’s (...)

November 1, 2015

Commentary on Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17

https://www.workingpreacher.org/commentaries/revised-common-lectionary/ordinary-32-2/commentary-on-ruth-31-5-413-17-3

By the time the reader gets to these passages, she knows that the characters in this story are beyond reproach. Naomi shares her wisdom with Ruth. Ruth follows Naomi’s sage advice. Naomi blesses Boaz. Boaz (...)

November 8, 2015
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