When the biblical writers reach for a metaphor for divine power, they often talk about God’s “right hand.” The psalmist proclaims that the Lord will save his anointed “with the saving power of his right hand” (Ps. 20:6b), and the author of Exodus says, “Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power, your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy” (Ex. 15:6, ESV). By contrast, Father Leslie Chadd, in the article “God’s Left Hand,” summed up the nature of left-handed power: At the centre of it is a baby