First Reading

The Old Testament reading for this third Sunday in Advent continues the book of Isaiah’s [...]

Last Sunday, the passage from Isaiah portrayed the unlikely image of hope: soldiers melting down [...]

“Then I myself will gather the remnant of my flock …, I will bring them [...]

This short verse and a half from Malachi enters the lectionary without much in the [...]

Allow me to pull back the curtain a bit here. The team that organizes these [...]

Daniel 7, an apocalyptic vision of the end of human [...]

Isaiah 1 is—and is not—a beginning. Rashi, the great 11th-century CE French sage, points out [...]

This familiar and beautiful passage is assigned every year on [...]

These two pieces of scripture from Jeremiah are pieces of [...]