The Psalms are the most powerful prayers ever created in the history of humanity. There are no prayers stronger than the Psalms—none exist. They were spoken and written more than two and a half ...

Editor’s note: This article was first published in the Aug. 2, 1997, issue of America, titled “Praying the Psalms: Some Notes.” For some years I have been keeping rather extensive reading notebooks.

Our beloved apologist wrestled with the Psalms’ hardest words in his season of suffering. In trying times, we often turn to the familiar: a lifelong friend, a staple recipe, an album that has worn ...

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 ...

Christians have sung, chanted, and prayed Psalms for more than two thousand years – a practice of worship inherited from our Jewish ancestors in the faith. We pray them during Mass, the Liturgy of the ...

Happy Independence Day weekend, and thanks for spending time with God’s Word. If you missed last week’s “Psalm Summer,” please review. Again, after I consulted numerous “most popular” Psalm lists, ...