The Psalms, says theologian Eugene H. Peterson, are God’s gift to those who want to learn how to pray. “If we wish to develop our entire heart, mind, soul and strength, the Psalms are necessary,” the ...

The singing of psalms spans thousands of years of church tradition. Today’s songwriters and worship leaders mine these texts for words and inspiration as they craft new songs for the church. For the ...

Why Scripture talks of our entreaties to God as rising like incense. Some prayers find their way back quickly, like sunlight glancing off water. Others seem to drift into the distance and never return ...

Tucked within the rolling hills of northwest Missouri is the campus of Conception Abbey, a Benedictine monastery that has been part of this landscape since 1873. Abbot Gregory Polan, Conception’s ...