Commentary on Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12
In the city of Macon, Georgia, the Harriet Tubman African-American [...]
Revised Common Lectionary
Commentary on Mark 10:2-16
Mark’s original readers probably found Jesus’ uncompromising statements about divorce and remarriage as challenging and [...]
Commentary on Genesis 2:18-24
The book of Genesis begins with two different but complementary stories of God’s creation of [...]
Commentary on Job 1:1; 2:1-10
During the month of October (Pentecost 18-21), we are treated to a rare opportunity–a run [...]
Commentary on Psalm 8
A problem with our hearing of Psalm 8, as with so many other biblical texts, may be [...]
Commentary on Mark 9:38-50
Coming from the villages of Caesarea Philippi where Jesus first announced his suffering, rejection, death, [...]
Commentary on Psalm 19:7-14
The lectionary tries to steal this psalm from us, but we don’t need to let [...]
Commentary on Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22
Esther is a strange and difficult book for several reasons, [...]
Commentary on Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29
The book of Numbers can be a theological quagmire. Today’s [...]
Commentary on James 5:13-20
The preceding chapters in the Epistle of James have described the ideal of a congregation [...]
