Commentary on Isaiah 50:4-9a
Teresa of Ávila, the sixteenth century mystical writer, knew of suffering. In a particularly difficult [...]
First Reading
Commentary on Jeremiah 31:31-34
Hope for a renewed future is an apropos theme on [...]
Commentary on Numbers 21:4-9
The text for today doesn’t seem like altogether good news. Trudging through the seemingly never-ending [...]
Commentary on Exodus 20:1-17
God creates and recreates us, God calls us and names us. We seek to embody [...]
Commentary on Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16
A name is a powerful thing. A name identifies, describes, [...]
Commentary on Genesis 9:8-17
The story of Noah and the flood is one of those biblical narratives that we [...]
Commentary on Joel 2:1-2, 12-17
The few occasions that Joel appears in the lectionary it [...]
Commentary on 2 Kings 2:1-12
The book of Kings almost teases readers about the succession from Elijah to Elisha. The [...]
Commentary on 2 Kings 5:1-14
Healing seems to be the big take away from the story of Naaman. The powerful [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 40:21-31
Given the choice between a source of relief that is distant and slow acting but [...]