I was going to jump into Psalm 42 today since our reading plan just finished Job and is back into the psalms. However, this is too good not to share. It connects with yesterday’s A Good Ending to the book of Job. It connects also with Easter, which we all celebrated just over a week ago. The ultimate Good Ending…

Why a Democracy Advocate in Putin’s Russia Didn’t Fear Death by Daniel Sillman reviews Patriot, the memoir of Alexei Navalny. The article is worth the read in its entirety, but I want to focus on the end of the book as quoted in the article:

This is, in fact, how Navalny concludes the memoir, which one of his political allies called his gospel.

Are you a disciple of the religion whose founder sacrificed himself for others, paying the price for their sins? Do you believe in the immortality of the soul and the rest of that cool stuff? If you can honestly answer yes, what is there left for you to worry about? – Alexei Navalny

Amen.

Death is swallowed up in victory. (1 Corinthians 15.54, ESV)