In the center of the room, under glass, a Hebrew Bible lies open to the Book of Psalms. Gold leaf glimmers on the borders; red dragons grasp a blue shield while green and blue birds perch on curling ...

The pop star Taylor Swift’s newest album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” is breaking streaming records, but for longevity, the Psalms, traditionally ascribed to King David, will be hard to beat. That is ...

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 ...