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 ...

Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role of faith in a pluralistic society.

1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in ...

NEW YORK — Nearly 80 years after Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated, Menachem Rosensaft decided it was time to confront God. And so he penned “Burning Psalms: Confronting Adonai after Auschwitz.” ...

They Cried to the Lord: The Form and Theology of Biblical Prayer, by Patrick D. Miller (Fortress). Though billed as a study of biblical prayer, this is the most helpful and comprehensive study of the ...

Over the centuries, perhaps no volume of poetry has claimed the devotion of so many people across the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and also inspired the creation of artistic ...

Menachem Rosensaft, the son of survivors, challenges the comforting messages of Judaism’s best-known collection of verse. Of the 150 psalms in the book known in Hebrew as “Tehillim,” the 23rd may be ...