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I had a seminary professor who insisted that when we wrote about someone else’s point of view, even someone whose words and actions we found problematic, reprehensible, or “wicked” (verse 1), we should write in (...)

Psalm 1 promises happiness for those who avoid the path of wicked sinners and scoffers, and instead “delight” in meditating on divine commandments. These righteous people will live well and flourish. They will be  like (...)

Psalm 81 is a hymn with a prophetic warning pleading for faithfulness from the covenant community. It is not surprising, then, that Psalm 82 also emphasizes a prophetic warning. At the same time, Psalm 82 (...)

In this complicated geopolitical world in which we live, it is difficult to know what is true, what is false, and whose truth prevails in the battle between competing points of view. It might be (...)

As1 Brueggemann and Bellinger say about Psalm 49, “The psalm is particularly important and surely pertinent in a contemporary society that is ‘rich in things and poor in soul.’”2 As they suggest, Psalm 49 has something (...)

In Hebrew, the name for the book of Psalms is tehillim, or “praises,” because from beginning to end, the God we confess is the subject of our praise.1 Yet we must be clear, this unbridled (...)

This psalm was used to guide worship, rather than as a record of the particular faith journey of an individual in time.1 Its words offered the community of faith a structure in which to express (...)

Prayer is frequently found in Ephesians and placed in “strategic positions within the letter: at the outset, at the transition of the two halves of the letter, and at the end.”1 In this letter, therefore, “theology (...)

Since ancient times Psalm 47 has been used for worship.1 It is plain to see why Christians have used it on Ascension Day. “God has gone up with a shout” (verse 5) brings to mind (...)

We are familiar with the moments of Jesus’ Passion the church remembers in its observation of Good Friday: Jesus’ arrest, Peter’s denials, the cruel abuse of Jesus by his captors, the mockery of a trial (...)