"Poetry invites you to have an experience. It doesn't want you to drift away into inattention. It wants to grab you." ...

A reader who I had the pleasure of chatting with out in Columbus at the recent “Deep in History” conference writes: Talking with you was the highlight of my weekend at the Coming Home Network ...

There is a rabbinic tradition that links Psalm 22 with Purim. The psalm is headed, “For the Leader, upon Ayelet HaShachar”. This phrase literally means “the hind of the morning”, which some views ...

A Jewish midrash (creative interpretation) imagines Prophet Esther (who according to the rabbis was one of seven Jewish female prophets) reciting Psalm 22 the moment before she was about to enter King ...

The psalmist knows loneliness. Even the most faithful believers have anguished over the fear that somehow God is not listening to their cries.

We should read it not as an assortment of poems and songs but as a single rhapsody on God’s covenant promises. Late in the fourth century, a man named Palladius of Galatia left his home (somewhere in ...