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In generous and flowing prose, Philip Jenkins of Baylor University offers an inviting, nontechnical reading of Psalm 91 that is best described as a biography of the psalm. Focused on its reception ...

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