First Reading

Ice Water
Commentary on Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29

These verses stand near the beginning of part II of [...]

Ice Water
Commentary on Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29

No sooner have the Israelites set out from Mount Sinai [...]

Job's Sufferings
Commentary on Genesis 2:18-24

Genesis is an origin story: a prosaic telling of how things came to be the [...]

How do you get a camel through the eye of a needle ...
Commentary on Amos 5:6-7, 10-15

Integrating life and liturgy has been a practice for Christian [...]

Storm Over Lake Otsego
Commentary on Isaiah 53:4-12

Whereas discussion of Israel’s role as God’s servant is one of several key themes in [...]

Lord, that I might see!
Commentary on Jeremiah 31:7-9

Jeremiah’s oracle promises salvation for the scattered remnant of Israel, return from exile, and joyful [...]

Good fences, Houston Heights, Texas
Commentary on Deuteronomy 6:1-9

Both the book of Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic movement that [...]

Luther crest, Eisleben, Germany
Commentary on Jeremiah 31:31-34

Rembrandt’s famous Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem captures what [...]

Luther crest, Eisleben, Germany
Commentary on Jeremiah 31:31-34

Early Christians recognized God’s utterly new and transformative work in [...]

Mausoleum Stained Glass
Commentary on Isaiah 25:6-9

All Saints Sunday is a day to remember those who have died. It is difficult [...]