This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

"So hold on. You're not alone. Now it's time to sing along." My friend @charleshughes2.bsky.social with a beautiful reflection on covers of #EverybodyHurts. It resonates with me as a #survivor of #suicide (among other things) and as just a human in this world. open.substack.com/pub/nofences...

More openness about #depression and #suicide is better. www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...

I'm excited to see my local library has #SuicideAndTheCommunionOfSaints on order! Three copies. 🎉 Thanks to whoever made the suggestion. You, too, can make this request of your public library.

You are not alone. We are not alone.

“What we do is everything wrong to help a person...We disconnect them from community. And then we disconnect them from their freedom. And when people finally have nothing left, then they will use until they die.” RIP Louise Vincent, genius of #HarmReduction. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/h...

Yeah.

"...I choose to thrive in the midst of captivity. I choose joy and wellness and relationship because it is what will sustain us so that we can move a step closer to freedom." An excellent word on Jeremiah for all of us. 🕯⚓️

I have my copy in hand, and my public library confirmed their three copies are being processed in. This book is a gift for us all, neighbors. #TheDoubleTax

Deaths in ICE custody since Jan. 1 include at least two #suicides: "Jesus Molina-Veya, in June at the Stewart Detention Center in Georgia, and Chaofeng Ge, last month at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Pennsylvania." Policy can drive people to seek death. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/h...

What a great job.

How very historically-minded of you, Wordle.

These words from a theologian of my acquaintance about #SuicideAndTheCommunionOfSaints meant a lot to me. ⚓️ "You have Augustine on the topic exactly right; he's rarely treated with much nuance on this."

May Andrew Huse rest in peace. For the rest of us, maybe today is a good day to check in with a friend, maybe share a sandwich. #SuicideIntervention #CommunionOfSaints www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/d...

988 can be a helpful resource in #suicide intervention. Please consider adding it to your contacts and passing it along.

Cowardly indeed.

If you've been thinking of reading Elizabeth Gilbert's new memoir, please read this first, by @kayaoakes.bsky.social. And even if you don't care one bit about Gilbert, this is an excellent, helpful read about cancer, love, ego, and so much else. open.substack.com/pub/kayaoake...

"Harlem River Blues" features in my new book, and I look forward to reading this bio of its composer. May he rest in peace.

Amen. Sigh.

I'm grateful for this testimonial for #SuicideAndTheCommunionOfSaints. "As a survivor of suicide, I find that engaging any resource on the topic gives me great unease. But...If you work in any helping profession...or are basically any human, you need to read this lovely, accessible book..." ⚓️

#SuicideAndTheCommunionOfSaints is only 130 pages long (notes, acknowledgements, and all) because I wanted to make it accessible. I read the fat books about #suicide so you wouldn't have to. ⚓️

The official publication day is here! Suicide and the Communion of Saints is available everywhere, in time for #SuicidePreventionMonth. And online reviews are now open for all you sweet people who bought and read it early. I'm grateful. ⚓️

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A blatant attack on @qasimrashid.com personally and on democracy and the rule of law.

Whether or not you buy #Suicide and the Communion of Saints yourself, please consider requesting that your local public library buy it, so more people can have access. Thank you! ⚓️

I found community at the national #OutoftheDarkness walk in 2016. I wrote about it, and about how the church could emulate this kind of mutual vulnerability and support around #suicide survival and intervention, in my new book.

God be with them.

Yes. This is the Gospel, summed up.

"Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new...You were fragrant, and I drew in my breath and now pant after you. I tasted you, and I feel but hunger and thirst for you. You touched me, and I am set on fire to attain the peace which is yours." St. Augustine of Hippo, pray for us. ⚓️

Amen.

I appreciate this, with the caveat that my book is not intended for people who are newly grieving. It has a "Forewarning" (instead of a Foreword) about that fact. ⚓️

What a blessing to offer a Eucharist remembering Jonathan Daniels at a retirement community and to hear people's memories both of him (personally!) and of their own times in the freedom struggle. They keep testifying. ⚓️

Amazon sales ranks are kind of silly, but I'll take it. ⚓️

Thank you, @amypete.bsky.social, for your early review of Suicide and the Communion of Saints as "a slim, gentle, and wise pastoral guide to thinking about suicide theologically." ⚓️

"As a survivor, theologian, and historian, I was profoundly dissatisfied by the binary focus in much Christian conversation about whether or not [suicide] is a sin. I wanted to offer a distinctively Christian perspective that broke that binary...” tinyurl.com/2nez5c89 ⚓️

Suicide and the Communion of Saints' official release date is 4 September, but online retailers are already shipping copies. ⚓️

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

"This book belongs in the hands of anyone who loves, serves, cares for, or teaches humans. Period." Thank you, @rogerbooks.bsky.social , for your advance endorsement of Suicide and the Communion of Saints, available 4 September.

This promises to be a great collection! ⚓️

"The principal appeal of Mr. Awuah-Darko, it seems, is his willingness to discuss what few people will say out loud." If nothing else, this strange and complex story shows we need better ways and spaces to talk about suicide. ⚓️ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/b...

Once again, a psalm for the day speaks to the moment. "Do you indeed decree righteousness, you rulers? * do you judge the peoples with equity? No; you devise evil in your hearts, * and your hands deal out violence in the land." (58:1-2)⚓️

I appreciate Dr. MacKinnon's attention to nuance & focus on the person seeking care. Among other things, "We found that many people detransition not out of regret, but because they feel forced by societal factors like negative attitudes toward transgender people..." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o...

Suicide & the Communion of Saints draws on Augustine, Aquinas, Luther,Shakespeare, Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Justin Townes Earle and @steveearle.bsky.social among others. That testifies to how deeply and broadly the problem of suicide resonates. I hope my new approach & personal testimony are helpful.

My author copies just arrived, so stock is starting to move! 🎉

The truth might hurt.

Whenever I visit NH, which doesn't require adults to use seat belts or motorcyclists to wear helmets, it's a grim joke that you can live free AND die. But for some trans kids in NH, now, it really will be live free OR die. Gender-affirming care is life-affirming care. thehill.com/homenews/sta...

One month until Suicide and the Communion of Saints' publication day!

Blessed feast of St. Ignatius Loyola, my dear friend despite his death almost 500 years ago, and a most excellent guide to living in right relationship with God, one's neighbor, and oneself. (And a miserable sinner, too. I know. He's like me that way.)

I received the first copy of Suicide and the Communion of Saints! Beloved influencers, I hope your copies will be shipped within a couple of weeks. Thank you for your support and help getting the word out.

That's the truth. (Found, along with many other truths, in @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social 's new book, Misbehaving at the Crossroads.)