Alternate First Reading

This first revelation of sacred space identifies as holy the soil itself, God’s good land [...]

Wherever you live right now, it is probably Egypt in some way or another. In [...]

It can be hard to let go of the things, places, relationships, and systems that [...]

Three steps forward … two steps back … After the tenth and final plague — [...]

A cloud holds water, promise of rain and sustenance. It presages storm. It can obscure [...]

Christians are often eager to follow John’s Gospel in typologically linking the “bread from heaven” [...]

The narrative of Exodus 16:2-15 is powerful and rich with homiletical possibilities. Divine testing, the [...]

“Is the Lord among us or not?” (Exodus 17:7). What proof and signs can persuade [...]

Exodus 17:1-7 is a narrative that shares much in common with the complaint narratives that [...]