Ps 130 is one of my favourite psalms. We begin by crying to God ‘out of the depths’ (referring to anything low, deep or profound, such as the ocean, a pit or a valley, all of which are used in the Bible to describe difficult times), but find a God who forgives, loves...

Our remaining penitential psalms (Ps 102, Ps 130, Ps 143) do not seem, at first glance, to have much in common. Yet a closer inspection of all of them show a keen awareness of personal hurt and anguish (Ps 102:2-11; Ps 130:1; Ps 143:3-4). The Bible has much...

At funfairs and amusements parks, there is often a hall or mirrors which distort images because of the different curves in the glass, making one’s appearance look radically different to reality. Distortion in sound is also possible, when audio signal processing is...