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The Lectionary Commentary, Volume 2: The Acts and the Epistles (The Second Readings) is unavailable, but you can change that!

An unprecedented, monumental work, the three-volume Lectionary Commentary offers superb exegetical essays on 513 biblical texts from the Revised Common Lectionary spanning the three-year liturgical cycle. The present volume, The Second Readings: Acts and the Epistles, covers the lectionary readings for the final selections of Acts and for all of the New Testament Epistles, from Romans to...

responsibilities as citizens of heaven (whose royal law is, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” [James 2:8]), we will also be able to fulfill our responsibilities as citizens on this earth. On the other hand, if we are irresponsible citizens here and now, we cannot be responsible citizens of heaven. We live Christian lives in the real present with its concrete street addresses and political and social realities because we belong to a permanent citizenship that is God’s gift to us here and
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