In Kathleen Norris’s latest memoir\/essay collection, I discovered repeated attempts to bring the Psalms back to the forefront of Christian worship.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
-Kathleen Norris, Acedia & Me, p.276<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … <\/p>\n
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