Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C. AS THE SEAONS after Pentecost unfolds, ...

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C THE SAGA OF Elijah that we are followin ...

Reta Halteman Finger The roles that Jesus plays in John's gospel echo those of women in first-century Palestine. ...

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C I WAS BROUGHT UP up on stories of my fa ...

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C HOW SHALL WE engage with scripture thro ...

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Common Lectionary, Cycle C "THIS IS THE LORD'S DOING; it is marv ...

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C "EVEN IF I OWNED Picasso's &# ...

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Common Lectionary, Cycle C "NO ONE SPEAKING by the Spirit of God ever ...

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Common Lectionary, Cycle C “TAKE OFF THE garment of your sorrow and afflic ...

Martin L. Smith Reflections on the Common Lectionary, Cycle B IT WOULD BE strange if any segment of the litur ...

Walter Wink, 76, a world-class biblical scholar and non-violent practitioner, crossed over to God on May 10 at his home in Western Massachusetts. Following a slow decline, he had been in hospice for several we ...

Ched Myers A Bible study on water, God, and redemption. In the Christian tradition we speak of baptismal wate ...

The death of Pope Shenouda III, leader of the 10 million Coptic Christians centered in Egypt, comes at a critical time for this church, which makes up about 10 percent of the Egyptian population. Today’s funer ...

Jewel Gingerich Longenecker Seminaries train pastors on how to read the Bible. But those tools often don't reach people in the pews. ...

Alan Storey Mark's gospel tells us that healing, like suffering, should unite us. A Bible study for the health-care debate. ...

Michaela Bruzzese Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for September and October. Jesuit theologian Ca ...

Michaela Bruzzese Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for August. The next month is dominated by Jesu ...

Michaela Bruzzese Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for July. The readings this month begin and end ...

Michaela Bruzzese Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for June. The Easter season concludes with the ...

Michaela Bruzzese Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for May. In the four weeks that precede Pentec ...

Chris Hoke Inside Guatemala's gang prisons. Sitting on a concrete floor in the middle of the prison gang ...

Michaela Bruzzese Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for April. We enter Holy Week stripped of all t ...

Michaela Bruzzese Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for March. I am like a flag in the center of ...

Walter Brueggemann Biblical faith invites us out of self-destruction toward God's generosity and abundance. ...

Michaela Bruzzese Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for February. Over the next four weeks, Jesus’ ...

Michaela Bruzzese Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for January. The next four weeks usher us throu ...

Michaela Bruzzese Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for December. A few years ago, as I and the res ...

Laurel A. Dykstra Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for November. The month of November is a lectio ...

Laurel A. Dykstra This month, as we enter the high season of the church year, the common lectionary offers an overwhelming number of bibl ...

Peter B. Price Put God’s saving justice first, says Jesus (Matthew 6:33). Put God’s saving justice first, say ...