Commentary on Mark 6:14-29
[Editor’s note: The author has read this text from the perspective of an immigrant, pairing [...]
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Commentary on Mark 6:30-34, 53-56
Many Christians don’t have a sense of what a spiritual [...]
Commentary on John 6:1-21
Like the earlier figures of Moses and Elisha, Jesus proclaims a message of God’s abundance [...]
Commentary on Mark 10:2-16
Beware this week. As soon as you read the word “divorce” aloud, a whole sermon [...]
Commentary on Mark 10:17-31
The first thing to say about this text, and hopefully not the last thing to [...]
Commentary on Mark 10:35-45
Following hot on the heels of the rich young man who goes away grieving, this [...]
Commentary on Mark 10:46-52
The tale of blind Bartimaeus is a bit uncanny in Mark’s Gospel — because nothing [...]
Commentary on Mark 12:28-34
There is no limit to the amount of work to be done in the church [...]
Commentary on Mark 12:38-44
Over the ages, Jesus has been persistently inconvenient for the elite classes of his and [...]
Commentary on Mark 13:1-8
As a young man I remember when this gospel lesson was the text used for [...]