Alternate First Reading

At Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia there is a tomb of the Unknowns. It commemorates [...]

Last fall, the wife of a good friend and colleague was diagnosed with lymphoma. What [...]

Amos 7:7-17 describes two episodes in the prophetic career of Amos, set in the northern [...]

Justice and judgment — are they an inseparable pair? Amos in context Scholars generally agree [...]

Long before the American sitcom “The Office” launched Steve Carell’s career and the U.K.’s version [...]

At first glance, the parent-child metaphor for God’s relationship with Israel in the book of [...]

The week’s reading from Amos contains two different units: a prose vision report in Amos [...]

“Amos was Israel’s first theologian,” says scholar John Barton. “As far as we know, no [...]

The Old Testament readings for this week and next week [...]