Commentary on Jeremiah 31:31-34
The book of Jeremiah is dominated by doom and gloom, [...]
First Reading
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 [...]
Commentary on Jeremiah 11:18-20
How are the faithful to respond in times of pressing [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 50:4-9a
What is the meaning of suffering? This is one of the most profound questions that [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 35:4-7a
In many of our churches, we tend to align salvation with God’s grace, themes that [...]
Commentary on Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9
Psalm 119:97 proclaims: “Oh, how I love your law!” This [...]
