"You have searched me and known me," sings Psalm 139, a Psalm of refuge and reassurance. To be known and to be spoken for are themes taken up in sacred music from Pérotin to Joanna Marsh, Antony Pitts ...

(RNS) For decades, Psalm 139 has been a byword of the anti-abortion movement that has used its line about being "knit together in my mother's womb." Now, its other verse about being "fearfully and ...

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