Commentary on Isaiah 52:7-10
“Beauty” is a word in the English language that gets used a lot to talk [...]
First Reading
Commentary on Isaiah 62:6-12
Someone once said that life’s storms force us into one of three positions when pondering [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 2:1-5
Isaiah 2:1–5 welcomes congregations to Advent across the globe. As the first scriptural reading of [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 9:2-7
In 1943, Ruth Caye Jones, burdened by the grim headlines of mounting World War II [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 7:10-16
On this final Sunday in Advent, the lectionary includes one more passage from the book [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 35:1-10
The Old Testament reading for this third Sunday in Advent continues the book of Isaiah’s [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 11:1-10
Last Sunday, the passage from Isaiah portrayed the unlikely image of hope: soldiers melting down [...]
Commentary on Jeremiah 23:1-6
“Then I myself will gather the remnant of my flock …, I will bring them [...]
Commentary on Malachi 4:1-2a
This short verse and a half from Malachi enters the lectionary without much in the [...]
Commentary on Job 19:23-27a
Allow me to pull back the curtain a bit here. The team that organizes these [...]
