The Year of Matthew is the second in a series of commentaries on biblical scripture found in the three-year cycle of Christian liturgical readings of the Revised Common Lectionary. Following the RCL provides a convenient format for Bible study for clergy and lay leaders ("believers in exile") who are drawn to the social justice mandate found in Jesus's teachings, but who no longer find meaning in orthodox interpretations of scripture. The continued existence of a Christian "faith" as a religious system of belief is clearly under siege by twenty-first century Biblical scholarship as well as...

The Year of Luke is the first in a series of commentaries on biblical scripture found in the three-year cycle of Christian liturgical readings of the Revised Common Lectionary. Instead of interpreting these readings as a precursor of messianic salvation from Hell, culminating in the exclusive Body of Christ and the imperial violence of the Church Triumphant, postmodern exiles from the premodern orthodoxy of the Christian church can begin to realize the radicality in Jesus' original message, and join the struggle to find the courage to live it out in Covenant, non-violence, justice-compassion,...