In Kathleen Norris’s latest memoir/essay collection, I discovered repeated attempts to bring the Psalms back to the forefront of Christian worship.
It’s very similar to what our local reformed congregation has been pushing for a while, though from a different angle. Every year I warm up to the idea more.
The psalms are available to me when I worship in any Christian church, but they are likely to be snippets chosen for their suitability as Sunday-morning praise. They tend to disappear in the service, a little dose of poetry to be rushed through and soon forgotten. One can attend church for years and never perceive the psalms as both a primary inheritance form Judaism and the core of Christian prayer.
-Kathleen Norris, Acedia & Me, p.276