Words for the Ones Who Have None
In counseling the grieving, Donna noted, “A lot of times, the widows don’t have words.” So when she sits with one of them, she brings a psalm and lets it do the speaking.
The Man Who Came for the Rhythm
At Pastor Abou Assifa’s church, they were playing the tam-tam. A man arrived who had not come for the service. He had come for the sound.
What We Don’t Sing
One Sunday, as Psalm 13 was being taught, two things struck Jon: the psalmist’s vow to sing in the midst of lament, and the observation that singing Psalm 13 today would feel foreign in modern churches. So he went home that night and started writing.
In a Few Days, What Normally Takes Months
One of the musicians at the Yaoundé workshop came away with a finished song. Under normal circumstances, he said, a piece like this would take him months to create.
A Verse for the Whole Year
The church that hosted the Bantè workshop had made a decision at the start of 2026: every service, every gathering, every week of the year would return to Psalm 3:5.
They Asked for This
The Bantè workshop didn’t start with Scriptura knocking on a door. It started with a community knocking on Scriptura’s.
The Same Vision, Arrived at Separately
Africa Sings was founded in 2019 by Dr. Daniel Dama with a mission that sounds immediately familiar to anyone who knows Scriptura’s work: to promote peace, social cohesion, and the experience of living together through arts, culture, music, and Christian witness.
The Same Thing, Everywhere
When Jon Hutchins described his process of Psalms songwriting to Scriptura staff member Katie, she stopped him. She recognized it immediately: this was exactly the methodology ethnoarts experts teach in international workshops all over the world.
Thirteen People, Eight Countries, One Question
The room at the EMDC conference held thirteen people with differing roles. They shared a question that doesn’t get asked often enough: what happens to a psalm when it crosses into a new language?
A Psalm on the Bus to Lomé
A few days ago, a Scriptura trainer boarded the bus from Kara to Lomé. At some point the driver put on a video of a group singing Psalm 150. She knew the song—because she had helped the team who made it.
