The state tried to kill Christa Pike, and when two doses of the execution drug failed, the same people who had come to end her life had to switch to saving it. She is now in hospital on a ventilator, and if she recovers, she may have to face the whole process again. Her case raises a hard question about the comfort we take in the idea of a humane execution, and about how a society that speaks of the value of human life can still decide whose life it is entitled to end.
Stance
Direct writing that responds to an idea, claim, or ideology circulating anywhere in culture—spiritual, political, social—and where I differ from it. These posts state a position in plainer terms rather than surveying every side of a debate, with sovereignty running through every one of them.
The Manufacture of the Lightworker Identity – Part 1
Being told you are a Lightworker can feel like coming home. But what happens when the name starts explaining your suffering, your purpose, your difference and your place in the world—and what lies beyond the identity itself?