Commentary on Numbers 21:4-9
Nearly everything about this text feels far removed from 21st-century life.1 It chafes against both [...]
First Reading
Commentary on Jeremiah 31:31-34
The images used in Jeremiah 31 are predominantly familial rather [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 50:4-9a
Isaiah 50:4-9a is part of a larger poem that extends to 50:11.1 Its subject is [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 52:13—53:12
Isaiah 52:13-53:12 is a song of hope to the people [...]
Commentary on Acts 10:34-43
The Easter message humbles a culture that continually debates human worth. Who is worthy to [...]
Commentary on Exodus 12:1-4 [5-10] 11-14
The Israelites’ escape from Egypt is a well-known story. Commentaries [...]
Commentary on Acts 4:32-35
What does an Easter church look like? Acts 4:32-35 provides the second snapshot of the [...]
Commentary on Acts 3:12-19
The Revised Common Lectionary’s selection of readings from Acts invites us to ask, “What does [...]
Commentary on Acts 4:5-12
Peter and John have been instruments of divine resurrection power (Acts 3). This divine might [...]
Commentary on Acts 8:26-40
This week we read of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch. It’s a story that wasn’t [...]