Revised Common Lectionary

Commentary on Isaiah 49:8-16a

Isaiah 40-66 uses female images for God more frequently than any other Old Testament body [...]

Commentary on Matthew 6:24-34

Society has changed a great deal since the time of Jesus. Definitions of poverty, wealth, [...]

Commentary on Matthew 28:16-20

The arrest and crucifixion of Jesus was a deeply disorienting [...]

Commentary on Genesis 1:1—2:4a

“Community” and “relationship” are “in words” in current environmental and [...]

Commentary on 2 Corinthians 13:11-13

Relating this biblical text to the liturgical context is no [...]

Commentary on 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13

I would have fit in well in Corinth. The Corinthian [...]

Commentary on Acts 2:1-21

It is fine to preach on this text as the story of the birthday of [...]

Commentary on John 20:19-23

This abbreviated reading from the Gospel of John has already been heard as the Gospel [...]

Commentary on 1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11

These verses repeat and recast the pattern that 1 Peter [...]

Commentary on Acts 1:6-14

Though Luke 24:51 intimates it, Acts 1:9 is the only place in the New Testament [...]