What a gift to receive a heap of books on the Psalms in this time when it’s hard to know how to pray. They arrived in the mail just before the pandemic and the world’s shock at American policing ...

The 81-year-old songwriter ruminates on mortality, faith and meaning in an album that could be a farewell. By Jon Pareles What do songwriters do when they feel death approaching? As time runs out, ...

Paul Simon has announced a new album, “Seven Psalms,” a suite-like conceptual album that he says is meant to be listened to as one 33-minute piece of work, containing seven distinct but interlinked ...

University of Adelaide provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. One of the great aspects of international arts festivals is the opportunity to experience large-scale artistic projects that ...

They Cried to the Lord: The Form and Theology of Biblical Prayer, by Patrick D. Miller (Fortress). Though billed as a study of biblical prayer, this is the most helpful and comprehensive study of the ...

(UNDATED) King David is mum and pointing at his tongue. He has promised to speak no evil word, writing “I will bridle my mouth, so long as the wicked are in my presence.” And “the wicked” are in very ...

We don't have that much detail about the actual crucifixion of Jesus. What we have are the stories in the gospels. And, interestingly and appropriately, the gospel writers are drawing on Psalms.

One of the great musical projects of my lifetime is the American Recordings sessions, which let Johnny Cash see a late-career revival through the 2000s. A collaboration between Cash and producer Rick ...