Commentary on Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9
Readers of Deuteronomy need to be prepared to travel through [...]
First Reading
Commentary on Isaiah 35:4-7a
The oracle begins with a command to speak, to proclaim words that remedy weakness and [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 35:4-7a
Why the lectionary excerpts only three and a half verses from Isaiah 35’s cohesive ten-verse [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 50:4-9a
The NBC family of networks has since 1989 carried a series of Public Service Announcements [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 50:4-9a
Isaiah 50 occurs in the second half of a section scholars call “Second Isaiah,” Isaiah [...]
Commentary on Jeremiah 11:18-20
I moved back to my home territory in 2015 after [...]
Commentary on Jeremiah 11:18-20
According to tradition, Jeremiah is “the weeping prophet.” It is [...]
Commentary on Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29
These verses stand near the beginning of part II of [...]
Commentary on Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29
No sooner have the Israelites set out from Mount Sinai [...]
Commentary on Genesis 2:18-24
Genesis is an origin story: a prosaic telling of how things came to be the [...]
