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With this new lectionary commentary series, Westminster John Knox Press offers one of the most extensive resources for preaching on the market today. When complete, the twelve volumes of the series will cover all the Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle, along with movable occasions, such as Christmas Day, Epiphany, Holy Week, and All Saints’ Day.

For each lectionary text, preachers will find four brief essays—one each on the theological, pastoral, exegetical, and homiletical challenges of the text. They might focus on the Gospel text, for instance, by reading all four essays provided for that text, or they might explore connections between the Hebrew Bible, Psalm, Gospel, and Epistle texts by reading the theological essays for each one.

Each lectionary year will consist of four volumes, one for the Advent and Christmas season, one for Lent and Easter, and one for each half of Ordinary Time. While the twelve volumes of the series will follow the pattern of the Revised Common Lectionary, each volume will contain an index of biblical passages so that nonlectionary preachers may make use of its contents.

More ways into the text
Unlike commentaries that offer only one perspective on the assigned texts for the day, this series will offer four distinct viewpoints on each of the four assigned texts, giving preachers sixteen different approaches to the proclamation of the Word on any given occasion.

Four unique perspectives on each text
For each lectionary text there are four brief essays from top scholars, preachers, and writers on the theological, pastoral, exegetical, and homiletical challenges of the text.

For all preachers and teachers of the Word
With a Scripture index in each volume, the series is ideal for lectionary and nonlectionary preachers, as well as teachers and students.

David L. Bartlett is Professor of New Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary, the author of What’s Good about This News? Preaching from the Gospel of Galatians, and coeditor of the Westminster Bible Companion series.

Barbara Brown Taylor is a popular preacher and the author of such books as Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith and The Seeds of Heaven: Sermons on the Gospel of Matthew (published by Westminster John Knox Press). She is Adjunct Professor of Christian Spirituality, Columbia Theological Seminary, and Butman Professor of Religion, Piedmont College.