Commentary on Jeremiah 17:5-10
This passage goes to the heart of biblical teaching, standing [...]
First Reading
Commentary on Isaiah 6:1-8 [9-13]
This is a word from the divine in a crisis, [...]
Commentary on Jeremiah 1:4-10
Jeremiah can join hands across the centuries with Malala and Greta as those who started [...]
Commentary on Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10
The reconstituted people of Israel came together on a holy [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 62:1-5
The opening verses of Isaiah 62 contain a hope of a land fully embraced and [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 43:1-7
Isaiah 43 is simultaneously a comforting passage describing God’s redemptive love for Israel, and a [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 60:1-6
We read Isaiah 60 at Epiphany in part because of the connection between the three [...]
Commentary on Jeremiah 33:14-16
This lectionary reading introduces the season of Advent, when Christians [...]
Commentary on Jeremiah 31:7-14
Jeremiah 31:7-14 is a complex theological text, which prompts the [...]
Commentary on 1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26
In some ways I am tempted to dare you to [...]