I’ve written over fifty blog posts commenting on the Book of Isaiah. Here they are in a list.
Through Advent with Isaiah (2019)
This was a series I did during Advent 2019, focusing on a random set of topics in the book.
Through Advent With Isaiah
Isaiah: The Man, The Book, and The Feast On The Mountain
Text and Claims
Structure and Condemnation
The Call of Isaiah
Isaiah and His Kings (I)
Isaiah and His Kings (II)
Weird Names
Isaiah and His Kings (III)
Isaiah and His Kings (IV): Isaiah 36-39
Isaiah and His Kings (V): Hezekiah in 2 Kings, Isaiah, and 2 Chronicles
The Idea of Justice in First Isaiah
Justice in II Isaiah
Justice in III Isaiah
Thomas Merton on Isaiah
Isaiah and His Kings: Cyrus the Great
The Servant of God in Isaiah
The Texts of Isaiah
The Brain as a Model for Prophecy in Isaiah
Highways in Isaiah and the Gospels
A Kingdom Without a King
Who Is The Servant in Isaiah?
For Unto Us A Child Is Born
Joy in the Ruins of Old Jerusalem
Sermons
An Advent Calendar (2016)
This was a series I did in Advent of 2016 when I was on medical leave for depression. It looks at the daily readings according to the Daily Office Lectionary of the Book of Alternative Services of the Anglican Church of Canada. Not all are meditations on Isaiah, but roughly half of them focus on the daily reading from Isaiah, or make some comment; the ones that discuss briefly or more fully the passage from the prophet are marked by an asterisk*. I include all of the posts here for the sake of completeness. Much of this was written while I was walking from Victoria BC to Seattle WA.
WEEK ONE – ADVENT I
*Sunday First Sunday of An Advent Calendar (Isaiah 1:1-9)
*Monday Day Two of An Advent Calendar (Isaiah 1:10-20)
Tuesday Day Three of An Advent Calendar: First Thessalonians (Isaiah1:21–31)
*Wednesday Day Four of An Advent Calendar: The Feast of St. Andrew (Isaiah 49:1-6)
Thursday Day Five of An Advent Calendar: Sex and Idolatry (Isaiah 2:1-11)
Friday Day Six of an Advent Calendar: Anthropology is Theology (Isaiah 3:8-15)
*Saturday Day Seven of an Advent Calendar: How to Read Prophecy (Isaiah 4:2-6)
WEEK TWO – ADVENT II
Sunday Day Eight of An Advent Calendar: Good and Evil (Isaiah 5:1-7)
*Monday Day Nine of an Advent Calendar: The Apocalypse as Justice (Isaiah 5:8–12, 18–23)
Tuesday Day Ten of an Advent Calendar: Santa Claus is a Klingon? (Isaiah Isaiah 5:13–17, 24–25)
*Wednesday Day Eleven of an Advent Calendar: Calling, Vengeance, and Casting Stones (Isaiah 6:1–13)
Thursday Day Twelve of An Advent Calendar: The Coming of the Lawless One (Isaiah 7:1-9)
*Friday Day Thirteen of An Advent Calendar: The Hermeneutics of עַלְמָה (Isaiah 7:10-25)
Saturday Day Fourteen of An Advent Calendar: Walking Contemplation (Isaiah 8:1–15)
WEEK THREE – ADVENT III
*Sunday Day Fifteen of An Advent Calendar: Recycling Prophecy (Again), and Baptism (Isaiah 13:6–13)
Monday Day Sixteen of An Advent Calendar: Trust and Betrayal (Isaiah 8:16–9.1)
*Tuesday Day Seventeen of An Advent Calendar: The Messiah of the 7th Century BC (Isaiah 9:1-7)
Wednesday Day Eighteen of An Advent Calendar: Love and God’s Feelings (Isaiah 9:8-17)
Thursday Day Nineteen of An Advent Calendar: “You Brood of Vipers!” (Isaiah 9:18—10:4)
*Friday Day Twenty of An Advent Calendar: From Poly to Mono (Isaiah 10:5–19; 2:2-4)
Saturday Day Twenty-One of An Advent Calendar: The Goodness of Matter, and the Incarnation (Isaiah 10:20-27)
WEEK FOUR – ADVENT IV
*Sunday Day Twenty-Two of An Advent Calendar: Light (Isaiah 42:1-12)
*Monday Day Twenty-Three of An Advent Calendar: The Peaceable Kingdom (Isaiah 11:1-9)
Tuesday Day Twenty-Four of An Advent Calendar: See, I Am Making All Things New (Isaiah 11:10-16)
Wednesday Day Twenty-Five of An Advent Calendar: Annunciation (Isaiah 28:9-22)
*Thursday Day Twenty-Six of An Advent Calendar: Visitation & Magnificat (Isaiah 29:13–24)
*Friday Day Twenty-Seven of An Advent Calendar: Jerusalem – Old, Current, and New (Isaiah 33:17–22)
*Saturday Day Twenty-Eight of An Advent Calendar (Morning): The Invitation (Isaiah 35:1–10)
Saturday Day Twenty-Eight of An Advent Calendar (Evening): Christmas Eve – Pouring Out Divinity into Humanity (Isaiah 59:15b–21)
Sunday/Christmas Day The Last Day of An Advent Calendar: Christmas Day!
