Revised Common Lectionary

This lection is quite short, a snippet from within a larger literary context. Such snippets, [...]

This passage plays a key role in the Gospel according to Mark’s understanding of why [...]

The central movement of the Suffering Servant poem in Isaiah 53:4-12 is from humiliation to [...]

The psalm text for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost is the “promise” section of the [...]

“Is she qualified? Can he do the job?” I ask these questions when the president [...]

“Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers,” drawled Garth [...]

The last line of Job 2:1-10 (last week’s first reading, [...]

Nearly irresistible is the urge to soften this passage’s demands. That urge has been around [...]

In “Glory Days,” Bruce Springsteen sings of that high school baseball player who “could throw [...]