I was walking into the Sacred Heart Hospital ER. And it was a madhouse.

“Don’t Look Up” is the latest controversial Netflix movie with a determined message: The world is ending, but no one believes it. Intended to be funny and serious at the same time, the film uses cheap jokes that, unfortunately, drown most of its depth — and what little hope and faith exists rests on a handful of characters.

The Star of David is a well-known symbol of Judaism. To wear or use one when one isn’t Jewish or isn’t in the active process of officially becoming Jewish is cultural appropriation. I’ve written in the past about this exact topic: Ask A Jew: Wearing the Star of David.

Thích Nhất Hạnh, the Zen monk and long-time Vietnamese political exile who was a prominent global Buddhist spiritual leader renowned for his advocacy of individual responsibility for such worldly concerns as the environment and nonviolence, has died.

So here I am, a latter-day Grinch, to proclaim as well the essential sinfulness of us

With “mixed emotion,” Mark Finney announced his resignation as executive director of World Relief Spokane in an email to his staff the afternoon of Wednesday, Jan. 19.