Futility Is Resistible

"...though this world, with devices filled, should threaten to undo us."

Make the Pain Go Away

Psychologist and author Andrew Solomon writes that there is a difference between those wanting to kill themselves and those wishing themselves dead.¹ The latter want the pain to go away; the former are willing to act on that desire.

There is a similar, though less final, distinction among pastors. Some, many perhaps, often wish they c…