As my youngest sat beside me with an open book I struggled to keep my own eyes open. He slowly sounded out each word of the easy reader. My yawn came out slowly and I tried to hide it. He kept reading ...

The psalms were written to be prayed and sung. Here's one way to do this in your own quiet time that can yield tremendous fruit. In the past, my go-to method for reading the Psalms was usually to read ...

In may 1940, the Nazis invaded Western Europe. Their totalitarian drive to hegemony pounded its fist all the way to the Atlantic. They exerted dominance over Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, the ...

It seems you’re missing a basic point of difference between the organization of the psalms in the Protestant and (many) Catholic Bibles. Our citations are from a Catholic Bible; yours are not. Both ...

These 150 Hebrew poems are central to Jewish prayer and the inspiration for countless forms of creative expression in Western culture. While we know very little about the origins of most psalms, the ...

Different Bibles number the Psalms in different ways. Some split Psalm 9 in two, making it 9 and 10. These same versions also combine Psalms 146 and 147, so the total number of Psalms remains 150. The ...

Insomnia. Truly no fun at all: the mind runs while the body lies paralyzed worrying about the bills, the kids, the new catalytic converter for the car, and the sad state of human affairs—the whole lot ...

The Psalms show us how to faithfully protest to God. After I was diagnosed with cancer five years ago, I returned to the Book of Psalms anew. I started to pray with psalms that I had merely read ...

The so-called “Cursing Psalms,” in which the Psalmist prays for the destruction of his enemies, are difficult passages for modern readers, who recognize a sharp contrast between the harsh words and ...