Psalms
That really nasty part of Purim
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 20, 2024
(RNS) — The end of the book of Esther is monstrous. How do we cope with it?
Born in tragedy, Refugee Shabbat honors our 110 million neighbors looking for a home
By Joshua Hammerman — February 1, 2024
(RNS) — The sheer numbers of people displaced should tell us this is a shared problem.
5 years after massacre, Tree of Life rabbi inspires ‘A Psalm for Pittsburgh’
By Kathryn Post — October 27, 2023
PITTSBURGH (RNS) — Psalm 121, which gave Rabbi Jeffrey Myers solace in the wake of the tragedy, has been set to music in a piece commissioned by the Tree of Life congregation and composed by Gerald Cohen.
Paul Simon gets religion
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 19, 2023
It only took him 82 years, but Paul Simon has created a masterful piece of Jewish liturgy.
Reader: What do you think of responsive readings? Congregation: Yawn
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 11, 2022
(RNS) — If you have ever found responsive readings to be boring ...
On a second COVID-19 Thanksgiving, how to find room for thanks
By Beth Kissileff — November 24, 2021
(RNS) — We can’t always immediately see the possibilities for growth that come out of a negative situation.
An outsider’s encounter with the Psalms
By Simran Jeet Singh — July 5, 2020
(RNS) — Instead of trying to contextualize it as a scholar, I decided to approach Psalm 133 as a reader and see how it might speak to me.
When church hymns don’t grieve with us
By David Taylor — March 11, 2020
(RNS) — It’s hard to find solace in church when the hymns are mostly in major keys. In times of grieving, the Psalms can comfort us in the losses we all experience.
In Robert Alter’s majestic Bible translation, the achievement is in the details
By A. James Rudin — April 4, 2019
(RNS) — With an accurate, understandable translation that captures the unique sentence structure, style and syntax of the ancient language, Alter has set a new standard for biblical scholarship.
The moral and national danger of a president’s cursing
By Jerome Socolovsky — January 22, 2018
(RNS) — When a president writes off whole nations as 'shitholes,' he is not simply using salty language. He is using the most powerful government in the world to enforce discrimination and inequality. And every political leader who supports him is, biblically speaking, cursing this nation.
Jamila Woods’ new video is hair-raisingly ‘Holy’
By Kimberly Winston — May 3, 2017
(RNS) The Chicago-born singer, songwriter and poet turns some Bible verses into an affirmation for single women.
Bono and Eugene Peterson talk Psalms, Christian art in new video
By Emily McFarlan Miller — April 29, 2016
(RNS) "Why I'm suspicious of Christians is because of this lack of realism," Bono says in the video.
Nancy Ortberg: A growing Christian fascination with darkness
By Jonathan Merritt — August 21, 2015
(RNS) Most of us can look back at seasons of darkness and observe the wondrous unfolding of God in our lives, says Christian teacher and author Nancy Ortberg.
Bobby McFerrin: Praying as he sings
By Kim Lawton — June 26, 2013
(RNS) His newest album, “spirityouall,” includes adaptations of traditional African-American spirituals and devotional songs that McFerrin composed.
Mother Teresa as a psalm
By David Van Biema — September 7, 2012
(RNS) On September 5, 1997, the world mourned when Mother Teresa, whose work with the poorest of the poor made her a global icon, died of a heart ailment at age 87. Five years later, the world did a double take, when a volume of Teresa's private letters revealed that the tireless, smiling nun spent the last 39 years of her life in internal agony. By David Van Biema.
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