Revised Common Lectionary

Commentary on Psalm 91:9-16

The psalm text for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost is the “promise” section of the [...]

Commentary on Hebrews 5:1-10

“Is she qualified? Can he do the job?” I ask these questions when the president [...]

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

“Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers,” drawled Garth [...]

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

The last line of Job 2:1-10 (last week’s first reading, [...]

Commentary on Mark 10:17-31 

Nearly irresistible is the urge to soften this passage’s demands. That urge has been around [...]

Commentary on Hebrews 4:12-16

In “Glory Days,” Bruce Springsteen sings of that high school baseball player who “could throw [...]

Commentary on Psalm 90:12-17

This week’s psalm selection is the closing section of one of the great lyrics of [...]

Commentary on Amos 5:6-7, 10-15

Amos worked full-time for much of his life as “a [...]

Commentary on Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12

In the city of Macon, Georgia, the Harriet Tubman African-American [...]

Commentary on Mark 10:2-16

Mark’s original readers probably found Jesus’ uncompromising statements about divorce and remarriage as challenging and [...]