Isaiah 65

Given time, things can grow back.

We live between variants; we also live between Advents.

My daughter wants to know. Even as a biblical scholar, I don’t have a good answer.

The first Easter was a wrecked scene of dispirited disciples in the shadows of an insurrection.

Living into the desired new creation is our work—and God’s promise.

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

Is Isaiah's vision of a peaceful public square a naïve hope?

In my Century lectionary column for this week, I focused on the reading from Isaiah 65. It’s a text I find baffling, frustrating and hopeful. If space were limitless, here are some other things I might have included.

While Christian scholars have long questioned body-soul dualism, it remains common in church circles. This may finally be changing.

It was the spring of 1963 in Birmingham, and it looked as if the civil rights movement would suffer yet another defeat. The powers that be had more jail space than the civil rights workers had people. But then one Sunday, reports historian Taylor Branch, 2,000 young people came out of worship at the New Pilgrim Baptist Church and prepared to march.

The promise of Isaiah 65 is that God is doing a new thing. What's taking God so long?