For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. Although Psalm 32 is counted among the Psalter’s seven penitential psalms, there is nothing lachrymose about it: it both begins and ends ...

Fr. Julian Studden’s The Psalms as a Way of Prayer Lenten Mission retreat has been conceptualized with the frustrated beseechers of the Lord in mind.

In many traditions, Psalm 51 is included in worship services that begin the season of Lent. Its author acknowledges messy ...

You might like to read one of the Gospels over the season of Lent. Or perhaps you’ll want to read all 150 psalms. By reading the Bible, we remind ourselves of the great cosmic story of God’s ...

Someone wrote Psalm 8 about 2,500 years ago ... In a world like this, we can dedicate our 40 days of Lent to follow the lead of the Spirit and reassess everything just as Jesus did in the desert.

What Jesus is saying is that is easy to focus on the sins of others, while failing to discern our own need for repentance and mercy. Before God, we are all beggars; all of us have sinned and fallen ...

By Dunford Cole It’s the Second Sunday of Lent. I hope you are experiencing a spiritual awakening as we journey toward Easter ...