Poem of the Day: ‘Psalm 138’ In a moment in which Israel faces the fury of the evil, there is little poetry can do — little but inspire hope and remind us of the enduring deepest truths. Mary Sidney ...

The new lectionary has now been in force since the beginning of Advent last year. I say “in force” rather than a more neutral expression, because there was no ...

Psalms is, of course, a collection of deeply spiritual poems. But what is not sufficiently evident in the existing English versions is that the spirituality is characteristically enacted through ...

An attorney and Jewish activist who was born in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp to two Holocaust survivors, Rosensaft has written a series of “response” poems corresponding to each of ...

The book of Psalms is the Bible's most read book — a collection of 150 praises and prayers loved and revered for their magnificent poetry. In modern terms, Psalms are a self-help manual to help ...

Released on Jan. 27, genocide expert Menachem Rosensaft's 'Burning Psalms' is a harsh condemnation of the lack of divine intervention against the Nazis - but it's not a dismissal ...

Through poetry, art, music, and liturgy, expert contributors will explore the Psalms in a variety of contexts, including as forms of praise and exaltation, how they help to express pain and suffering ...

What Paul Celan said of poems is all the more true of the psalms; They are gifts given to the attentive. More: Scripture / Prayer / Spirituality / Theology. Lawrence S. Cunningham.

Psalm 137 calls on the gathered community to make sure that this type of trauma is never repeated.” Less than two years after Reflections was published, Lewis’s wife, Joy, succumbed to cancer.

The Psalms Scroll from Qumran has eight extra poems. The Psalms, in other words, have long made room for more songs. Paul Simon’s brilliant and biblical intertwining of hope, ...

Today’s Poem of the Day, “Psalm XIII,” reflects the experimental energy Sidney brought to the making of verse. The metrical shifts in these abab quatrains, from iambic pentameter in the a lines to a ...