Pete Seeger wrote “Turn! Turn! Turn!” based on a passage from the Book of Ecclesiastes. While the book can be nihilistic at points, the song is very pretty and smooth. It became smoother when The ...

Country music has a rich history of incorporating themes of rowdy Saturday nights, evenings spent drinking in bars, heartbreak anthems, cheatin’ songs and romantic odes, but the genre’s artists have ...

Some exegetes and preachers have tried to persuade us that the Song of Songs is an elaborate allegory about the love of God for Israel or of Christ for the church. Yes, the book may have something to ...

What does it mean to find 'the one your soul loves'? Does the Bible have a book dedicated to this exact question? Out of the 66 books in the Bible, none are quite like the one in the Old Testament ...

The spiritual life is not static; it is an unfolding ascent into the depths of divine love. Throughout church history — especially in the writings of Gregory of Nyssa, Bernard of Clairvaux, and the ...

Song of Songs is a new theatrical work based on one of the most enigmatic and poetic texts of the Hebrew Bible. Composed by Yelena Yesilevskaya, drawing directly from the original verses, Song of ...

Min. Adeoluwa (Adeoluwa Boluwajaiye) represents a fresh, bold expression in the gospel music landscape. In a saturated industry often driven by sound trends, his commitment to singing scripture ...

At age 10, I found myself learning to chant, by heart, a chapter of the Song of Songs from the Hebrew Bible, which takes the form of a dialogue between two unnamed lovers. In the chapter, he lavishes ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Her new dance at Bard, a collaboration with the composer David Lang, is a refined, restrained and sometimes breathtaking response to the ...