Revised Common Lectionary

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Commentary on Joel 2:23-32

Why did God let this happen? This is the question that drives the book of [...]

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Commentary on Jeremiah 14:7-10, 19-22

These two pieces of scripture from Jeremiah are pieces of [...]

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Commentary on Luke 18:9-14

Parable and prayer interlace in this passage, much as in last week’s lectionary. So also [...]

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Comentario del San Lucas 18:1-8

Jesús continúa enseñando a sus discípulos a través de parábolas [...]

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Commentary on 2 Timothy 3:14—4:5

Sometimes the theological controversies we know so well, the conflicts [...]

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Commentary on Psalm 121

Psalm 121 is a “song of ascent.”1 It is the second psalm in a collection used by [...]

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Commentary on Jeremiah 31:27-34

The promise of a “new covenant” in this passage may [...]

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Commentary on Genesis 32:22-31

Wrestling is the most honest, most profound metaphor for the [...]

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Commentary on Luke 18:1-8

Parables work because the comparisons they make stop the hearer short. The comparisons might, at [...]

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Comentario del San Lucas 17:11-19

¡Tranquila, humanidad! Los tropiezos son inevitables (Lc 17:1). ¿O se [...]