Calvin Trillin’s lighthearted and best-selling tribute to his late wife, Alice, has made husbands like me nervous. By “like me” I mean the ordinary, absentminded kind—husbands who have little more ...

If Bentley A. F. were alive today, he might marvel at how his concept of pluralism—where interest groups shape governance—has evolved in the modern world. His idea, rooted in the mechanisms of ...

Psalm 8 is a joyful admiration of the glory and majesty of the one and only God; and of God’s universe. It begins and ends with the acknowledgment of the transcendent excellency of God’s personal name ...

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Coverdale's translation, 1535 as contained in The Great Bible (1539, 1561 etc.) and later in the Book of Common Prayer (1662) 1. O LORD our Governour, how excellent is Thy Name in all the world : Thou ...

When we think of the questions that we expect faith to answer for us, perhaps we assume that the most important ones are theological: Who is God? How do we build our relationship with God? But ...

View a gallery of selected details from an anthology of 36 psalms, “I Will Wake the Dawn: Illuminated Psalms,” by Hebrew manuscript artist Debra Band (Jewish Publication Society, 2007). In her ...

How can we preach psalms in a way that recreates some of the meditative, emotional, imaginative, and collaborative effects the poets built into their hymns? Preachers need look no further than the ...