This week, our hosts are talking about the Psalms. What role have they played in Christian piety and worship over the centuries? Why did the Reformers place such importance on them? And why have they lost their spiritual primacy today?
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Currently Reading
Onsi: Deep Workby Cal Newport and The Intellectual Life by A.G.
Colin: Surprised By Joyby Colin Redemer
Rhys: Metamodernism: The Future of Theory byJason Josephson Storm
Texts Discussed
"They Even Let The Heretics Keep the Psalms" by Rhys Laverty
"The Desert Island Book of the Massachusetts Colony" by Rhys Laverty
"Why Lewis and Keller Are Wrong About The Imprecatory Psalms" by Rhys Laverty
"Don't Keep The Imprecatory Psalms At Arm's Length" by Rhys Laverty
"The Return of the King? A Canonical Reading of Psalm 137" by Rhys Laverty
The Art of Biblical Poetryby Robert Alter
Interpreting Hebrew Poetryby David Peterson and Kent Harold Richards
"Why Even Non-Christians Lose From Growing Ignorance About The Bible" by Colin Redemer
Spotlight
A Learned Discourse on Justificationby Richard Hooker
