Worship is a political act. Claims of kingship are political claims. Perhaps it is the impending national election here in the United States that has me reading Psalm 47 in a political framework, but I do not know how it can be read in any other way. Certainly the psalmist was not thinking of America in 2016 when it was written; even so, the claims made in these verses would have had profound political implications for the culture in which it was produced. In fact, the claims made in...

Our Old Testament lection for today, as it comes to us, is profoundly celebratory in nature. David, having recently become king over all...

Quite often our prayer life is shaped by the immediate. Our prayers reflect what we are facing at that particular moment on that...