From the best of columns appearing in The Christian Century, this collection of fifty-two meditations is based on weekly readings of the Revised Common Lectionary for year Written by an impressive list of scholars and preachers, these essays become entry into biblical insights and fodder for sermons. Contributors are Joanna Adams, Mary W. Anderson, Stephen Paul Bouman, Walter Brueggemann, Barbara Crafton, Fred Craddock, Kristen Bargeron Grant, Mary E. Hinkle, Paul Keim, William H. Lamar IV, Bill O?Brien, John Ortberg, Barbara Sholis, John Stendahl, Paul Stoble, Andrew Warner, William H. Willimon, Patrick J. Willson, and Lawrence Wood