‘King David’, painting by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (il Guercino) c. 1768. (Credit: Wikicommons.) Listen The Lord Jesus warns us against “the blind leading the blind.” If we’re blind and desire to ...

An exhibition prioritizes the expensive, silent object over the lived, functional experience of the believer.

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 ...

Some of the most beautiful hymns of praise and thanksgiving ever composed are those sung by David, the shepherd boy of long ago who later became the mighty king of Israel. His beautiful and poignant ...

It is fascinating to consider that King David was raised as a shepherd, was the great-grandson of Ruth, and became the greatest king of the Old Testament and an ancestor to the greatest king of the ...

Elí, Elí, lemá sabachtháni? Or, in English, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" This lament of Jesus (Matthew 27:35-44) as he faces death is a quotation from one of King David's psalms, Psalm ...

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