Commentary on Job 19:23-27a
Allow me to pull back the curtain a bit here. The team that organizes these [...]
First Reading
Commentary on Daniel 7:1-3, 15-18
Daniel 7, an apocalyptic vision of the end of human [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 1:10-18
Isaiah 1 is—and is not—a beginning. Rashi, the great 11th-century CE French sage, points out [...]
Commentary on Jeremiah 31:31-34
This familiar and beautiful passage is assigned every year on [...]
Commentary on Jeremiah 14:7-10, 19-22
These two pieces of scripture from Jeremiah are pieces of [...]
Commentary on Genesis 32:22-31
Wrestling is the most honest, most profound metaphor for the [...]
Commentary on 2 Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c
This week’s lectionary reading offers a poignant account of illness [...]
Commentary on Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4
Habakkuk provides honest lament about violence and God’s response regarding [...]
Commentary on Amos 6:1a, 4-7
In Amos 6, one is confronted with a picture of utter opulence. At the pinnacle [...]
Commentary on Amos 8:4-7
The pericope before this week’s lectionary text offers a key for interpreting the indictment against the gross [...]