Alternate First Reading

Commentary on Job 38:1-7 [34-41]

Like George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life, Job responds [...]

Commentary on Job 23:1-9, 16-17

Job sits on an ash heap, bereft of children and [...]

Commentary on Job 1:1; 2:1-10

We enter this week into one of the most difficult and theologically sophisticated books of [...]

Commentary on Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22

If you haven’t ever read the book of Esther, read [...]

Commentary on Proverbs 31:10-31

This familiar passage tends to draw a strong response, either [...]

Commentary on Proverbs 1:20-33

Wisdom is introduced to the reader as a female character [...]

Commentary on Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23

The book of Proverbs includes a collection of folk wisdom [...]

Commentary on Song of Solomon 2:8-13

The Song of Songs is a celebration of erotic love, [...]

Commentary on 2 Samuel 11:1-15

Every week, a small group of seminarians and professors meet [...]

Commentary on 2 Samuel 7:1-14a

“I am living in a house of cedar, but the [...]