“Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.” (Exodus 15:21 NRSVue) So sings Miriam, after the waters of the parted sea crash back onto the dry land that the fleeing Israelites had just crossed, drowning the pursuing Egyptian armies. As recorded, her song is much…

Recently, someone asked me about the Latin phrase that sometimes appears at the bottom of my emails: “solvitur ambulando.” As they noted, it was clearly a phrase with meaning to me, or else I would not use it: so what did it mean to me? The phrase itself can be translated “it is solved by…