Commentary on Isaiah 7:10-16
Here is the promise: God is with us, so that we might live. God is [...]
First Reading
Commentary on Isaiah 35:1-10
“They will rejoice.” This is the first word of Isaiah’s vision in chapter 35, and [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 11:1-10
Isaiah preaches hope in a time of terror and justice in a time of oppression. [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 2:1-5
Isaiah’s vision begins with “the mountain of the Lord’s house” (2:2). We’ve already seen this [...]
Commentary on Jeremiah 23:1-6
Words one does not want to hear from God: “You have not attended to them. [...]
Commentary on Malachi 4:1-2a
Treacherous days, treacherous texts. Treacherous days because the end is coming, as the texts insist. [...]
Commentary on Job 19:23-27a
Handel Had It Right At least once a year, in the church where I grew [...]
Commentary on Jeremiah 31:31-34
The end of the church year brings several special occasions [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 1:10-18
Reform School – for Everyone When I was in junior high school, I remember hearing [...]
Commentary on Jeremiah 14:7-10, 19-22
In 2003, cartoonist Bruce Eric Kaplan published a cartoon in [...]
