Commentary

It took only 13 months for the deadly COVID 19 pandemic to kill the equivalent of every resident of Spokane County.

What shall we call such invisible states marking life’s transitional moments: dreamy to conscious, awake to asleep, Word to flesh, water to wine?

Women have yet to reach equal partnership with men in our evolving civilization.

I was inspired to write this piece when I heard on the radio that Teddy Roosevelt had called Thomas Paine “a dirty little atheist.” I have continued my research by extending it to our 16th president.

I came so close to understanding faith. Then a wave of doubt came crashing in, tossing me to-and-from on the sea.

Many of us lean on our certainty as a crutch to hold us up, afraid that to doubt what we believe will cause our entire belief systems to crash like a house of cards.