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Julia M. O’Brien is Professor Emerita, Lancaster Theological Seminary and Moravian University. She is the author of three commentaries on the Minor Prophets (including Micah, Liturgical Press, 2015), as well as the monographs Challenging Prophetic (...)

El Domingo de la Reforma presenta la oportunidad para abordar algunos de los temas centrales del movimiento reformador del siglo 16 y su continua relevancia para nuestros días. Tradicionalmente se hace énfasis en la “justificación (...)

Today’s reading, Isaiah 53:4–12, moves from humiliation to celebration. It ends the fourth of the so-called servant songs (42:1–4; 49:1–6; 50:4–9; 52:12–53:12). As this text is read, the congregation will probably conclude that the subject (...)

What can one say from the pulpit about the issue of immigration?  Immigration has long been a hot-button topic, stirring political debates and often divisive opinions. In today’s world, as global migration surges due to (...)

What if we welcomed children in Jesus’ name?  On November 22, 2014, Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old child, was shot almost immediately while playing with a toy gun in a park. According to data from the (...)

In chapters 1 and 2 the author of James has made clear that certain outward characteristics— impartiality and faithful action versus favoritism and the mistreatment of vulnerable people, for example—are reflective of either inward integrity (...)

Matt Skinner shares biblical insights from the Minneapolis sculpture garden at the Walker Art Center. Just as outdoor sculptures require us to walk around and view them from different angles, the Bread of Life discourse in (...)

Karoline Lewis joins us from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport, a place where complaints are common. Reflecting on John 6 and the Bread of Life discourse, she encourages us to consider: when people complain, is it (...)

The book of Genesis begins with blessing. God blesses animals and humans alike (1:22, 28), and that blessing takes two forms: home and succession. God provides a home for each kind of creature, a place (...)

Today’s Gospel reading is a tale of two healings (Mark 7:24–30 and 7:31–37).   Jesus is on the move again, in the region of Tyre. He enters a house, hoping to be undetected. The first healing (...)