Psalm

St. Martin and the Beggar
Commentary on Psalm 119:33-40

Reading Psalm 119, one can appreciate why Jesus’ contemporaries objected to his ambivalence about the [...]

St. Martin and the Beggar
Commentary on Psalm 119:33-40

Psalm 119, the longest of the Psalter with 176 verses, is a great meditation on [...]

Transfiguration
Commentary on Psalm 2

Transfiguration is a Sunday that suffers considerable theological confusion. It’s the same confusion we suffer every Sunday, [...]

Transfiguration
Commentary on Psalm 2

Psalm 2 makes a striking claim: in the face of terrifying threats, God creates and preserves order [...]

Ash to Ash
Commentary on Psalm 51:1-17

Most psalms picture the supplicant as an essentially righteous person.1 Yet Psalm 51 presents matters [...]

Ash to Ash
Commentary on Psalm 51:1-17

Most psalms picture the supplicant as an essentially righteous person. Yet Psalm 51 presents matters [...]

Christ in the Desert
Commentary on Psalm 32

Psalm 32 is one of the six psalms the church traditionally identified for the rite of penance [...]

Christ in the Desert
Commentary on Psalm 32

For around a hundred years, “form criticism” has provided the dominant approach to interpreting the psalms. In [...]

Nicodemus and Jesus on a Rooftop
Commentary on Psalm 121

The passages for the second Sunday of Lent all consider issues of human faith and God’s faithfulness. [...]

Nicodemus and Jesus on a Rooftop
Commentary on Psalm 121

Many readers of Psalm 121 have connected it with life’s journey — or at least with life’s [...]