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Series Overview Among the letters of the New Testament, 2 Peter is an easily forgotten writing. With only three chapters to speak of, wedged between the more popular First Letter of Peter and the equally (...)

In Matthew 11:16-19, Jesus highlights two possible responses to divinely ordained ministry. The first is disapproval and recrimination; the second is an assent to heavenly wisdom that may not always cohere with earthly expectations. The (...)

A specific historical moment for Zechariah 9-14 is challenging to ascertain, though it is surely post-exilic. The superscription in Zechariah 1:1 offers a date of 520-518 BCE, and there is little reason to question it (...)

Jesus typically calls busy folks. He was not known for recruiting lollygaggers. Throughout the scriptures he comes upon people in the daily routines of their lives and calls them to discipleship. In Matthew 4:18-20 he (...)

“Who am I?” is one of those questions I’ve asked of God on numerous occasions.1 “Who am I, God, compared to all this beauty that you have made?” This was my question some years ago (...)

Each Gospel presents Jesus’ resurrection in its own way. Luke provides a coterie of women who find the tomb empty, encounter two glorious “men,” and tell the other disciples—only to be disbelieved. Luke also lays (...)

This psalmist is a refugee.1 In fact, the Psalter is “refugee literature,” in a very real sense. It’s written by refugees, for refugees.2 The Psalms give voice to those who yearn for a place of (...)

La liturgia nos presenta hoy el séptimo y último signo de Jesús en el Evangelio de Juan: la resurrección de Lázaro (Jn 11:1-45).1 La lectura de este episodio en el momento culminante de la Cuaresma, como (...)

William Shatner—a.k.a. Captain Kirk from Star Trek and Denny Crane from Boston Legal—has been making the news lately because of his frank talk about death: both his own mortality and the prospect of the earth’s (...)

The reading for the Fourth Sunday of Easter stretches into the days following the Pentecost experience. Peter’s sermon (Acts 2:14–36) has moved a vast number of people to be baptized, about three thousand in all (...)