First Reading

The lectionary reading of this week forms part of a [...]

Last year’s lectionary cycle included longer selections from 1 Kings [...]

Deprivation and despair are two words that come to mind [...]

How do we know that Elijah is really a “man [...]

2 Samuel 12 is one of the most compelling stories [...]

The lectionary gives us only the terse conclusion to the [...]

This text has three major movements: God’s patient suffering at the hands of a recalcitrant [...]

As I write this, the mass shootings of the past year are fresh in my [...]

We find ourselves in a season of change and transition. [...]