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Join Profs. Karoline Lewis, David Lose, and Matt Skinner,for a conversation around preaching the lectionary texts for Lent 4: 1 Samuel 16:1-13, Psalm 23, John 9:1-41

Ask almost any preacher, and she will respond that preaching on festival days is more challenging, more exciting, and sometimes more daunting than on other days. Why? For starters, there often seems to be higher (...)

Interpreters of Isaiah have observed that the book can be summarized as a “tale of two cities” that tells the story of how Jerusalem, also referred to as Zion, is redeemed. On the one hand, (...)

The words of the Decalogue are for many so familiar and even ingrained in memory that we can easily fool ourselves into thinking their meaning is transparent, a simple guide to life in communion with (...)

In Matthew 21, the Evangelist has crafted an electrically charged reflection on spiritual fruitfulness and divine power. It sparks in the incendiary moment when Jesus curses a fruitless fig tree and it withers where it (...)

The Bible’s first creation story as prelude to the flood story The story of Noah, the flood, and the promise of the rainbow in Genesis 6–9 is God’s “do-over” of the first creation of the (...)

Water is life. This Lakota truth disseminated during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests starting in 2016 highlights that all life depends on clean water. The 2014 water crisis in Flint, Michigan, and more recent water (...)

Jeremiah’s lament reveals that prophetic ministry is both a difficult task and a divine gift—the burden of bearing God’s word and the blessing of proclaiming God’s redemption. Jeremiah 15:15–18 describes the agony of prophetic life (...)

As we continue our romp through Romans, a chapter per week until now, the editors of the Revised Common Lectionary are clear about the emphasis of proclamation from Romans 11. God is faithful. Has God (...)

After disputing with Pharisees and scribes about ritual handwashing (Matthew 15:1–20), Jesus and his disciples left Gennesaret, located northwest of the Sea of Galilee (14:34; 15:21). He went away (anachōreō) to the district of Tyre (...)