The Jewish response to the coronavirus pandemic was largely traditional: fasting and repentance, prayer and Psalms, especially Psalm 91 (Yoshev B’Seter). Religion and medicine have a long intertwined ...

Master of Saint Augustine, "Scenes from the Life of St. Augustine of Hippo" (c. 1490), central panel of a triptych Belgium, Bruges (all photos courtesy the Morgan Library & Museum unless otherwise ...

I know no better way to say it or write it. Life has those kinds of moments—the kind where human language experiences the poverty of speech, unable to adequately describe personal or communal pain.

The Qur’an states: “And We have preferred some prophets over others, and We gave (Prophet/King) David, Psalms.” (17:55) and “David! We did indeed make you a viceregent [khalîfah] on earth: so judge ...

The heart of Christian worship in Pakistan is the Punjabi Zabur, a century-old model of how to successfully contextualize Scripture. As Christians observe the International Day of Prayer for the ...

While reading Hallel (Psalms 113-118) recently, I was struck by how many of its phrases seemed to echo the story of the sea in the book of Jonah (chapters 1–2). At first glance, this might not be ...

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