THE CROSSING of the Red Sea, by Nicolas Poussin, 1633–34. ‘What made it miraculous is that it happened just there, just then, when the Israelites seemed trapped.’ (credit: Wikimedia Commons ...

At some point in life, everyone faces a personal Red Sea. It might not look like a forbidding body of water or entail being chased by Pharaoh and his army through the desert. But we have all known ...