The Psalms: Songs of Tragedy, Hope, and Justice Spirituality & Prayer_ Spirituality a Maryknoll priest

a Maryknoll priest

The Cross and the Lynching Tree (Winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion)

that have been marginalized in standard histories of Christianity

serving the sick

This day I call to me: God's strength to direct me

The Psalms: Songs of Tragedy, Hope, and Justice Spirituality & Prayer_ Spirituality a Maryknoll priest"A clarion call to those who read and repeat the words of the Psalms, to receive and understand them as marching orders in the campaign for human rights and dignity. Only in this way can [their] full meaning be grasped and appropriated in our day." David Noel Freedman "By bringing together this urgency for justice and the gains of genre analysis, Pleins offers a reading of the Psalms that is responsive to the socio political impulses all around us,