Commentary on Titus 3:4-7
The Letter to Titus gives us none of Christmas’s usual fare. It mentions neither Mary, [...]
Second Reading
Commentary on Titus 2:11-14
Get close. Look into the manger. What do you see there? A baby? Of course. [...]
Commentary on Romans 1:1-7
This is a surprising choice for the Fourth Sunday in Advent. Juxtaposed to the readings [...]
Commentary on James 5:7-10
Many scriptural texts can be read in isolation of their context and still provide some [...]
Commentary on Romans 15:4-13
The vision of the coming Kingdom is broad, wide, deep, and generous. On this Second [...]
Commentary on Romans 13:11-14
The readings for the first and second Sundays in Advent are taken from the later [...]
Commentary on Colossians 1:11-20
This lection reframes Christian experience within a wide-angle, cosmic divine [...]
Commentary on 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13
The epistle for this last proper of the church year [...]
Commentary on 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17
Last Sunday’s reading opened on a note of “thanksgiving” (1:2). [...]
Commentary on Romans 3:19-28
Anyone commenting or preaching on these well-known verses better hesitate. For preachers, at least in [...]