For more than 3,000 years, the Psalms have been the prayer book of God's people. But many Christians today are at a loss for how to read the Psalms, and so are largely unfamiliar with how these ancient songs can teach us to pray. Drawing from the 4th-century writings of Saint Athanasius of Alexandria and quoting from scripture, Benjamin Wayman makes the case that the psalms speak to every circumstance in life, and he details here their importance to the early Christian church and includes a short biography of Athanasius.