Isaiah

What does it do to the body and spirit to be preyed upon constantly?

What does it do to the body and spirit to be preyed upon constantly?

Anya saw the world in colors.

Isaiah’s suffering servant plays on our own ambivalent ideas about violence, passivity, and retribution.

Isaiah 55 gives voice to the longing we can't quite name.

Isaiah 55 gives voice to the longing we can't quite name.

I understand the people who only show up once a year, just to hold a candle of their own.

Unabated cultural frivolity rules our churches, too.

It's Advent, and accusations against prominent men are shaking things up like a highway construction project in the wilderness.

There is comfort, and then there is comfort.

During Advent, the cry of Isaiah should be our cry.

The Magnificat rejoices in a God who acts within human history.

Like John the Baptist, progressive Christians tend to define ourselves in the negative.

In Flint, we know something about nostalgia and despair—and hope.

We want to know God, but we also want to be known.

The parable of the wedding banquet is a horror story.

Isaiah invites us to remember our origins.

God builds “a house of prayer for all peoples.” All means all.

I can’t fathom a God who isn’t personal—and personally accountable.

Isaiah 50:4-9a; Matthew 26:14–27:66; Philippians 2:5–11