Commentary on 2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16
Within David’s checkered story (a patchwork of triumph and downfall) [...]
First Reading
Commentary on Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11
With the Nativity of Our Lord drawing nigh, ponder this [...]
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 [...]