The Psalms aren’t generally the first place we think to look in the Bible for a political vision, perhaps because they are so often used as a source of private consolation or words of praise […]
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Going Out and Coming Back: The Second Sunday of Advent
The reading from the Book of Psalms often gets overlooked in Mass. As a former music minister, I struggled with the fact that there’s not a perfect melody for every psalm each Sunday, but there’s only so […]
“How Can We Keep From Singing?”: Mercy and the Book of Psalms
There is no human practice or ritual more universal than making music. Before children start talking, they are singing—babbling, humming, tapping and banging on tables, dancing. We are music makers as much as we are […]
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