My grandfather helped write and pass Oregon’s assisted suicide law in the 1990s. He was the face of it on TV. I was there, years later, when he ended his life with a cup of barbiturates. I know this issue intimately, and know it to be wrong. This is not the way to a good death.

Amen.

The way some Christians preach the gospel, one can be excused for getting the idea that humans need to be saved from God, from their own Father, their own Maker. The first Christians were a lot clearer: humans need rescue from the enemy of all humans (Jesus Christ, the Son of

The Trinity is not solvable math but unfathomable mystery. We should not expect to comprehend the mystery but rather by the Spirit to enter its manner of life.

Rather than “explaining” the Trinity, we want to preach the texts that tell the story of the Trinity in a way that invites us to encounter the mystery of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, as a community of persons gathered around the practice of Eucharist.

THE HAND The hands that crafts humanity from the dust are the hands that grasp Mary's finger as she looks on her infant God with awe. The divine finger that etches the commandment concerning adultery into the stone on Sinai is the human finger that draws in the sand as the

Women equally bear the image of God as a gift whenever and wherever they come into existence, which image is the crucified Son, and are by the Spirit in a process with men of being conformed to the “likening” of God. We are together God’s offspring. There is no moment of

In a blame culture, in a culture that looks to scapegoat someone for anything bad that happens, usually whoever you already dislike, I want to show a third way, always. Still, we have governments to forecast, foresee, and troubleshoot potential harms and collectively prepare to

It’s almost never a good look to take assessments of someone, to judge someone one, to condemn someone in the moment of their death. I suppose one can rejoice when a visitor of mass death has their career of mayhem and slaughter brought to an end by their timely demise, but if

We start our journey hearing God as the one who is asleep in Luke 11:5-8, as the one whom we must wake to attend to *our* need. A lot of teaching and preaching makes the one knocking—always seen as *us*—the one who is in need. But to see the ones who arrive at night as the ones

When alone I drive away from my house to hear Confessions in my car in the local grocery store parking lot is my vehicle a Dashboard Confessional?

I was slain by this on the tube this summer.

I am old school about ending sentences with prepositions so I am going to fix a sentence for someone: Women are the kind of people who contain the limitless God within themselves, who give birth to God. Women are the kind of people who contain the courage to remain with Jesus at