I invite you to consider the words of Psalm 8: For the leader, on the gittith. A psalm of David. 2 Lord, our Lord, How majestic is Your name throughout the earth, You who have covered the heavens with ...

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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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 ...

I am drawn to wild places, are you? Such places help me feel alive, small and aware of a loving creative God who I may not have been noticing. To help me pay attention, I often try to bring along some ...