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God’s Triumph, God’s Mercy

“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…

Getting Unstuck

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…

Sometimes You Get It Right, Sometimes You Get It Wrong

If you’ve been around my office in the last weeks, you may have noticed amidst the chaos a particularly old book. Its brown leather binding is mottled with age and wear, and it has a trio of rubber bands gently holding the cover to the book block. Even to someone who doesn’t know books, this…