First Reading

Commentary on Isaiah 40:1-11

With these opening words of Second Isaiah (chapters 40-55), the prophet offers a balm for [...]

Commentary on Isaiah 64:1-9

This pericope is simultaneously rooted in the rich memories of God’s saving acts and mired [...]

Commentary on Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24

Luminous promises radiate from this passage in Ezekiel. Only here [...]

Commentary on Deuteronomy 6:1-9

Chapter 6 begins a new unit in Deuteronomy that runs [...]

Commentary on Jeremiah 31:31-34

The book of Jeremiah is dominated by doom and gloom, [...]

Commentary on Jeremiah 31:7-9

This lection is quite short, a snippet from within a larger literary context. Such snippets, [...]

Commentary on Isaiah 53:4-12

The central movement of the Suffering Servant poem in Isaiah 53:4-12 is from humiliation to [...]

Commentary on Amos 5:6-7, 10-15

Amos worked full-time for much of his life as “a [...]

Commentary on Genesis 2:18-24

The book of Genesis begins with two different but complementary stories of God’s creation of [...]

Commentary on Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29

The book of Numbers can be a theological quagmire. Today’s [...]