Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come.

I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.

Every organization does good and bad things.

If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they seem to have been born and cut themselves off from the full realization of love, how can that be pleasing to God?

Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.

The tragedies that are being brought about vastly outweigh the benefits that are being achieved.