Commentary on Acts 10:44-48
How can we ever forget the celebration in Chicago’s Grant Park the evening that Barack [...]
First Reading
Commentary on Acts 8:26-40
The post-Easter texts assigned for this year contain several readings from the Book of Acts. [...]
Commentary on Acts 4:5-12
How quickly things can change, and how differently people can interpret the same event! Last [...]
Commentary on Acts 3:12-19
When the risen Jesus was exalted to God’s right hand, he poured out the Holy [...]
Commentary on Acts 4:32-35
For the early church depicted in Acts, the resurrection of Christ is less a creedal [...]
Commentary on Acts 10:34-43
“This one (touton) God raised from the dead on the third day” (Acts 10:40). We [...]
Commentary on Amos 5:18-24
A brilliant ironist, Amos reverses his audience’s expectations at every turn in the book that [...]
Commentary on Micah 3:5-12
For additional lectionary resources on the assigned texts for All Saints, please see the Craft [...]
Commentary on Leviticus 19:1-2, 15-18
For additional lectionary resources on the assigned texts for Reformation [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 45:1-7
Messiah Cyrus and the sovereign will of God: The name Cyrus won’t ring a bell [...]