Commentary on Isaiah 40:1-11
This lection vibrates with the infectious energy of change. Brooking neither argument nor hesitation, a [...]
This lection vibrates with the infectious energy of change. Brooking neither argument nor hesitation, a [...]
“Beauty” is a word in the English language that gets used a lot to talk [...]
Isaiah 62:6–12 is a text written in the wake of military and societal defeat. Even [...]
A royal birth heralds liberation. This new beginning marks an end to domination and war. [...]
We are, all of us, impure, rags soaked in blood (Isaiah 64:6).1 We are, all of [...]
The Revised Common Lectionary has selected two handfuls of verses [...]
The verses included in this pericope center around the Day [...]
Sandwiched between the opening of the sixth and seventh seals, [...]
A brilliant ironist, Amos reverses his audience’s expectations at every turn in the book that [...]
What would our lives be like without the prophetic word?¹ A life without vision: no [...]