First Reading

Wine
Commentary on Joshua 24:1-2a, 14-18

Bondage to a lie, or freedom’s integrity.1 The reading makes [...]

Wine
Commentary on Joshua 24:1-2a, 14-18

Today’s passage contains one of the most familiar lines from [...]

the last fig
Commentary on Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9

Moses will never enter the land of promise.1 He will [...]

the last fig
Commentary on Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9

Readers of Deuteronomy need to be prepared to travel through [...]

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Commentary on Isaiah 35:4-7a

The oracle begins with a command to speak, to proclaim words that remedy weakness and [...]

MET-Salvador Dali-Madonna-detail 1
Commentary on Isaiah 35:4-7a

Why the lectionary excerpts only three and a half verses from Isaiah 35’s cohesive ten-verse [...]

Barboleta
Commentary on Isaiah 50:4-9a

The NBC family of networks has since 1989 carried a series of Public Service Announcements [...]

Barboleta
Commentary on Isaiah 50:4-9a

Isaiah 50 occurs in the second half of a section scholars call “Second Isaiah,” Isaiah [...]

Helping Hands
Commentary on Jeremiah 11:18-20

I moved back to my home territory in 2015 after [...]

Helping Hands
Commentary on Jeremiah 11:18-20

According to tradition, Jeremiah is “the weeping prophet.” It is [...]