Second Reading

Commentary on Romans 8:1-11

The transition between chapters 7 and 8 presents interpreters with a challenge, namely, to know [...]

Commentary on Romans 7:15-25a

Romans is regularly recognized to be Paul’s most seriously sustained theological reflection in the corpus [...]

Commentary on Romans 6:12-23

Diving into this lesson at v. 12 of Romans 6 puts one midstream into a [...]

Commentary on Romans 6:1b-11

Sometimes the editorial decisions of the Lectionary committees astound me. Why in the world does [...]

Commentary on Romans 5:1-8

“Access” has become a key phrase in our technological age. At the door of the [...]

Commentary on Romans 4:13-25

Paul never took a homiletics class. He did not know, therefore, that you are supposed [...]

Commentary on Romans 1:16-17; 3:22b-28 [29-31]

What does the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ accomplish? [...]

Commentary on 1 Corinthians 4:1-5

What irritates our sensibilities more? The claim that we are [...]

Commentary on 2 Corinthians 13:11-13

Relating this biblical text to the liturgical context is no [...]

Commentary on 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13

I would have fit in well in Corinth. The Corinthian [...]