Joseph isn’t usually the most important person in the birth narratives. Indeed, because God is Jesus’ real father, Joseph is usually seen as an incidental character in the drama. But…
The theme for this second Sunday of Advent is dreaming. And that may sound exactly like what Isaiah is doing when he writes this morning’s passage. Isaiah has a dream,…
In the C.S. Lewis children’s story The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe four siblings, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy stumble upon a doorway into another world, the world of…
Coming out of Egypt, coming out of Exile, coming out of a period of despair proves harder than expected. When the ancient Israelites left the bondage of Egypt, one would…
As I headed off to Divinity School, now many years ago, I asked my minister, What do you learn there, in Divinity School? She said, You learn how to read…
Habakkuk cries out in frustration to God; he cries out nearly in accusation. Habakkuk wants to know how long the cries for help will go unheard, how long the injustices…
Have you ever had the experience of reading something and then realizing that you have read it wrong? Rather than reading what was on the page, you read what you…
Jeremiah is sometimes called a prophet of doom. He lived on the cusp of the final disintegration of Israel. But when he began his prophecying, Israel was in a time…
