When you think of Thanksgiving Day, what is the first thing that comes to mind? For many of us, the first thing we think about is the feast and the gathering with family or friends. It's a tradition ...

Our beloved apologist wrestled with the Psalms’ hardest words in his season of suffering. In trying times, we often turn to the familiar: a lifelong friend, a staple recipe, an album that has worn ...

There's something about death that make everyone suddenly religious. Even an atheist will ask God for help (if he does, in fact exist) when death comes knocking at the door. There's one thing constant ...

It was with great anticipation that I read Rabbi Hayyim Angel’s latest commentary, “Psalms: A Companion Volume” (Kodesh Press, 2022). Like so many of his other books on biblical text, Rabbi Angel’s ...

We should read it not as an assortment of poems and songs but as a single rhapsody on God’s covenant promises. Late in the fourth century, a man named Palladius of Galatia left his home (somewhere in ...

Pope Francis said Wednesday there are Psalms to fit any need and that they should be learned by heart and repeated often. “It is necessary to make the Psalms our prayer,” the Pope said at his general ...

At the Morgan Library, 'Sing a Song,' which was seven years in the making, focuses on the role of psalms in medieval life and ...

How do we find happiness? The answer to this question is very much a scriptural one, though we do not usually think of the Bible as concerned with happiness. We imagine it to be devoted to a whole ...

Thousands gathered in Manchester city center for a rally in memory of the victims of the Yom Kippur murder and in support of the Jewish community and recited a chapter of Psalms together.