Revised Common Lectionary

Shepherd in a landscape with goats
Commentary on Revelation 7:9-17

The theology of baptism is given depth of meaning in [...]

Shepherd in a landscape with goats
Commentary on Acts 9:36-43

This passage begins with the words, “in Joppa there was a certain female disciple (mathetria) [...]

Shepherd in a landscape with goats
Commentary on John 10:22-30

Throughout John’s Gospel, responses to Jesus vary widely. This is the case once more in [...]

Shepherd in a landscape with goats
Commentary on Psalm 23

Even audiences largely unfamiliar with the Bible’s contents are likely to know phrases from Psalm 23 (though [...]

Gustav Klimt, Nine Drawings for the Execution of a Frieze
Commentary on Psalm 67

A few weeks ago I was browsing through our local Barnes and Noble bookstore and ran across [...]

Gustav Klimt, Nine Drawings for the Execution of a Frieze
Commentary on Revelation 21:10, 22—22:5

The view of the future offered by John of Patmos [...]

Gustav Klimt, Nine Drawings for the Execution of a Frieze
Commentary on Acts 16:9-15

According to Acts, first the Holy Spirit and then “the Spirit of Jesus” prevented Paul [...]

Gustav Klimt, Nine Drawings for the Execution of a Frieze
Commentary on John 5:1-9

The man healed in this story is perhaps the least willing and the least grateful of all [...]

Gustav Klimt, Nine Drawings for the Execution of a Frieze
Commentary on John 14:23-29

This passage is part of Jesus’ farewell discourse to his disciples on the night before [...]

Gustav Klimt, Nine Drawings for the Execution of a Frieze
Comentario del San Juan 14:23-29

“La paz os dejo, mi paz os doy; yo no [...]