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Let’s revisit the year so far: COVID-19, the killing of George Floyd, widespread protests demanding for racial justice, impeachment, a fractious Democratic primary, a record-breaking economy followed by a rapid, self-imposed shutdown, widespread job loss, (...)

Isaiah 55:10-13 concludes the section of Isaiah often called “Second Isaiah” (chapters 40-55) by offering a poetic vision of restoration from exile. These verses serve that vision by declaring God’s power to transform the world. (...)

Once again this week, the lectionary invites us to reflect on God’s words of comfort to Judean exiles in sixth-century BCE Babylon, as preserved in the middle chapters of the book of Isaiah. As noted (...)

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us how something so small that it is invisible to the eye can grow rapidly and exponentially into a destructive force that consumes all our attention and resources, as individuals, (...)

Why read 2 Corinthians?1 It is probably one of Paul’s most difficult letters to decipher. For one thing, its tone oscillates widely — from expressing deep love to angry rebuke. For another, it does not (...)

In my column two months ago, “Nature’s Warning,” I reflected on messages creation itself seems to be conveying through the outbreak of COVID-19. The Bible often speaks of nature forcing change upon people who will (...)

Valérie Nicolet is professor (“maître de conférences”) of New Testament at the Institut protestant de théologie, faculté de Paris, where she teaches New Testament and Ancient Greek. In her research, she focuses on the Pauline (...)

The stars of a Serengeti night are enough to take your breath away. I had the privilege three years ago of going on safari in Tanzania. One of my most vivid memories of that trip (...)

Acts 18 follows Paul as he continues on his missionary journey. From Thessalonica, he went to Beroea, Athens, and now arrives at Corinth. The full account of the Corinthian mission (which lasts a year and (...)

“They said nothing to nobody — they were afraid, you see.” That’s a fairly literal, inelegant English rendering of Mark 16:8. Could the evangelist have ended his Gospel like this? What kind of victor is (...)