Today would have been my sister Pam's birthday. So many people reach an age she missed by just over two weeks. As it happens, her favour...

It saddens me to report that my beloved sister Pamela died in the early afternoon of tuesday, 28 July, after a two-year battle with cancer. ...

I am currently part of a small group at my church studying a book by W. David O. Taylor , Open and Unafraid: The Psalms as a Guide to Life ,...

And here is Genevan Psalm 42 from Men Sing Grand Rapids:

There is something powerful about male unison singing. Here is Genevan Psalm 116, sung by Men Sing Grand Rapids . This gathering is inspired...

Last year I reviewed the 2013 hymnal, Lift Up Your Hearts , which my congregation now uses as its principal worship book. One year earlier, ...

I would love to have seen this special exhibit at the Morgan Library in New York City, but I was able to experience the next best thing in ...

Christian Courier recently published my article, A guitar journey through the Psalms , recounting a project of which I have kept readers of...

I would love to see this exhibit at The Morgan Library & Museum: Sing a New Song: The Psalms in Medieval Art and Life . Here is a descri...

I would love to have been present at this wonderful presentation by Prof. Karin Maag at Calvin University: Psalm Singing and the Genevan Ps...

An article I wrote some 35 years ago has been translated and published in Portuguese. The title is The Lord's Supper: how often?  and wa...

The current project drew on a very few of my earlier recordings of Genevan Psalter tunes, but it began in earnest last November, when I star...

Our friend Brian Wright continues his musical journey through the Psalms, using the texts from the Book of Psalms for Worship set to his ow...

In my guitar journey through the melodies of the Genevan Psalter, my latest performance is of Psalm 4 . This leaves me with only 20 tunes re...

Calvin Seerveld was the longtime senior member in aesthetic philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. I myself was a ju...

After I posted last week on a solar metaphor for God , I looked back at my own metrical versification of Psalm 84 and discovered that I too ...

Not long ago I was reading a book that quoted Psalm 84:11: "For the L ORD God is a sun and shield." I have observed in the past t...

In my previous post , I linked to a choral rendition of Psalm 43 from the Scottish Psalter, as sung to the haunting tune MARTYRS, one of onl...

Here is Psalm 43 from the 1650 Scottish Psalter sung to the tune MARTYRS . Note that it is in the Dorian mode, whose use is quite rare among...

Trevor Laurence has published a book titled, Cursing with God: The Imprecatory Psalms and the Ethics of Christian Prayer (Baylor University...