Leonard Bernstein’s 1965 work “Chichester Psalms” is not heard in First Congregational Church every year. Or every decade. The First Church Choir most recently sang the piece four decades ago — on Nov ...

The lectionary psalms have no sense of rhythm and the translation is chaotic and inconsistent. The new lectionary has now been in force since the beginning of Advent last year. I say “in force” rather ...

Many years ago, a Catholic colleague asked me to give a talk to a lay Catholic group about how reading the Bible could be enhanced by knowing the Hebrew language. I thought that the 23 rd Psalm would ...

Over the centuries, perhaps no volume of poetry has claimed the devotion of so many people across the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and also inspired the creation of artistic ...