This week’s lesson is brought to us by GoodWord from Walla Walla.

In Proverbs, the figure of “Wisdom” is tantalizing. She speaks with a feminine voice for God, or even as God. And given the emphasis on grace in today’s liturgy, a figure who laughs at someone in...

The 2017 conference in the context of a 45-year history.

The book of Job had never triggered this question for me before, but all of a sudden it came to me as I was working on this commentary: Where are the tears in the book of Job?  One place, that is...