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On Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, the United States of America will experience the juxtaposition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day (MLK Day) and Inauguration Day for the second time in our country’s history. Both are (...)

Colossians 3:12–17 is an inspiring and lofty vision of what the Christian life looks like. But this vision is not sentimental, and nothing in it is random or boilerplate. Paul is giving practical expression to (...)

Isaiah 52:7–10 marks the climax of Isaiah 40–55 (frequently designated “Second Isaiah”). Decades after Babylon invaded Judah in 587 BCE, the poet-prophet offers comfort to exiled Judeans and personified Jerusalem, who believe God has abandoned (...)

As we enter the third week of Advent, anticipation builds. Christmas lights twinkle, carols fill the air, and excitement grows. Yet in this season of waiting, Isaiah 12:1–6 invites us to pause and reflect on (...)

In a course on the prophets, a professor of mine once commented that any time he did a Bible study on Amos, about half the people didn’t show back up after the first session. And (...)

It’s easy to sit back and admire the faithfulness of Job. It’s harder to sit with the book and grapple with what actually happens in it. We may be inclined to look for ways to (...)

In a passage that differs from the first description of the creation of humankind in Genesis 1:26–27, Genesis 2 gives a variant, more detailed account that most scholars argue stems from a different literary source. (...)

Proverbs 31:10–31 is perhaps one of the most well known portions of the entire book. Certainly, it has become one of the most popular sections of scripture in modern, evangelical Christian circles. In such spaces, (...)

A phrase not uncommon in English translation among the prophets is “The word of the LORD that came to…” We find this phrase in the opening verse of Hosea, Joel, Micah, and Zephaniah. Nowhere, however, (...)

  These days—when progress for civil rights seems to be backsliding, and mis- and disinformation is rampant; when respect, collaboration, and cooperation in public realms seem to have gone out the window—Woman Wisdom’s exasperation in (...)