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...

Although the Reformed Churches are best known for singing the Psalms, other biblical canticles have played a role in Reformed liturgies in s...

Psalm 29 is a hymn to God's power and might, especially as manifested in natural phenomena. It's possible that the biblical author w...

Who could fail to be inspired by the competence at the organ of a very young Cameron Oostdyk playing Genevan Psalm 116 ? This video was pos...

The Genevan Psalter provided the basis for several tunes that would come to be matched to unrelated hymn texts. A few of these would be borr...

My affection for the tradition of German chorales is related to my love for the tunes of the Genevan Psalter, as I've written before in ...

During Holy Week, especially Good Friday, western Christians throughout the world sing this beloved hymn, O Sacred Head, Now Wounded . Writt...

I have now added a performance of Genevan Psalm 11 to my YouTube channel and playlist. The full Genevan Psalter playlist now consists of 78...

From 1934 until quite recently, the Christian Reformed Church in North America worshipped with a succession of Psalter Hymnals, the most rec...

My Genevan Psalter recording project continues apace with the addition of Psalm 10 . The entire playlist can be found here: The Genevan Psal...

Given their subject matter, Psalms 28 and 109  are probably among the less sung psalms in the church's liturgy. But the metrical psalte...

As a young man raised in a Christian home, I became enamoured of The Jerusalem Bible, a translation based on La Bible de Jérusalem , publish...

Over the past two months I have uploaded quite a large number of videos to my @ByzantineCalvinist YouTube channel, mostly guitar performan...

As visitors to this blog will note, the right sidebar contains several pages devoted to matters related to the Genevan and other psalters. O...

My work at uploading guitar performances of the Genevan Psalm tunes continues apace. The entire playlist can be accessed here: The Genevan P...

My latest column at Christian Courier is titled: 'My soul declares aloud': A metrical version of Mary's Magnificat . I offer it...