The psalms Medema sang as a church-going child never left him. One of his most treasured memories is standing nearby his grandfather in church as he sang the Genevan Psalter version of Psalm 42 with overflowing passion and unending enthusiasm. Years after re-entering the church Medema was invited to be the featured musician at a

Ken Medema had his reasons for dodging the psalms. A child of devout parents, Ken knew he was going to be a musician by the time he entered first grade. When he was eight, some friends asked his parents to store their piano for them. After a few weeks listening to Ken’s unending banging, they

The Pope was in Jerusalem. Standing at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial, surrounded by survivors of the Shoah he had been asked to speak. What would he say? What does anyone say at a time like that? Especially, what could a Christian leader say to those tortured and abused by representatives of a self proclaimed

In The Good Book, former Harvard Chaplain Peter Gomes writes, “No one can read the Psalms without the sense of the psalmist’s psychological insight into the depth and breadth of human experience.” I once advised a woman about to undergo surgery for cancer to read the psalms straight through, preferably in the King James Version. I