Commentary on Psalm 98
The Christmas season always seems like a time to sing the good old songs. Each year I [...]
The Christmas season always seems like a time to sing the good old songs. Each year I [...]
Is it too idealistic to think that Christmas Eve is one of those times when so many [...]
Despite the limited number of verses included from this psalm in the lectionary, Psalm 71 [...]
Some scholars rather rashly declare Psalm 19 to be not one but two distinct Psalms, one on [...]
Psalm 30 frames the struggles of the life of faith within a glorious edifice: the Jerusalem Temple, [...]
As always, preaching for a festival of the church brings competing goods: Do we preach the text [...]
Praise songs for Christmas! God forbid? In the so-called “worship wars,” traditionalists have been heard to grumble [...]
On Christmas Day, when families in pajamas unwrap gifts under their trees, monks in monasteries all around [...]
Psalm 116 is a thanksgiving psalm. These hymns were sung [...]
Psalm 51 lays bare the depths of the human condition and the equally profound need [...]