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There is always a degree of finagling that goes on when any biblical text is called upon to support a doctrine or understanding of the church. When that doctrine, in this case a way of (...)

This reading from Zephaniah is marked by hope, rejoicing, and reprieve, but it comes from the end of a three-chapter book in which the first two chapters consist of horrific warnings. Zephaniah prophesied early in (...)

1. It’s an election year in America. 2. Many of us are currently enthralled by the series A Game of Thrones. Two disparate facts that cohere around this common, crucial question: what makes for a (...)

Maundy Thursday is the Thursday of Holy Week. This day, recognized as a major liturgical celebration since the fourth century, commemorates John 13 where Jesus washed the feet of the disciples (verses 4-5) and gave (...)

John’s account of the last supper begins with Jesus washing the disciples’ feet. The action is simple, yet its significance is revolutionary. Using the most ordinary means, Jesus conveys the most extraordinary love and commands (...)

These days if we say “I’m in,” then immediately someone asks us, “But are you ALL in?” This is the question Jesus asks in our passage from the start: Are you all in? We hear (...)

This text begins our month-long lectionary “bread-based” texts. And don’t we get tired of all the bread sermons? We give up before we make it all the way through this sixth chapter of John. We (...)

“I am living in a house of cedar, but the Lord lives in a tent.” David’s determination to build God a suitable house is, according to Walter Brueggemann, part royal-aggrandizement and part genuine piety.1 Self-aggrandizement (...)

The report of John’s death, Jesus’ mentor (cf. 1:9), was the end of innocence for Jesus’ mission. Placing this account between the commission and the return of the twelve disciples (during the heart of the (...)

La lección de Marcos de esta semana,  nos acerca hacia un texto desconcertante, un texto tan complicado como la vida misma. La historia de la confrontación entre Juan el Bautista y Herodes Antipas es uno (...)