December 2024

PASTOR BETHANY: May You Give Thanks and Claim the Good, Even When Everything Seems Unbearable

PASTOR BETHANY: In the Second Week of Advent, Think About the Kind of Peace You Want

PASTOR BETHANY: Advent is the Season of Hope Emergent

November 2024

PASTOR BETHANY: What Does it Mean to Be a Good Human Today?

JONAH, PART V: Or, Where We Desire Resentment and Retaliation, God Desires Only Mercy and Love

October 2024

PASTOR BETHANY: Jonah, Part IV — Or, The Things You Can Find in the Dirt

PASTOR BETHANY: Jonah, Part III — Or, Look Toward the Temple

PASTOR BETHANY: Jonah, Part II — Or, Denial is the Reason We Sink to the Bottom

September 2024

PASTOR BETHANY: Jonah Escaped the Whale, But the Point of the Story is What He Escaped After That

PASTOR BETHANY: Saving Moments

July 2024

PASTOR BETHANY: A Sinister Impulse is Taking Over Our Churches

May 2024

PASTOR BETHANY: Raw, Exposed and Held

PASTOR BETHANY: Listen to Each Other

April 2024

PASTOR BETHANY: On Church Junk

December 2023

PASTOR BETHANY: What if Christmas Were a Little Less Hectic and a Little More Holy?

PASTOR BETHANY: Anger is a Gift, But Only If…

October 2021

PASTOR BETHANY: Sue-meg State Park and a Prayer for Humility

January 2021

PASTOR BETHANY: The Messy Middle

April 2020

PASTOR BETHANY: You are Not Alone

March 2020

PASTOR BETHANY: A Different Kind of Lent

CHURCH CLOSURES: Humboldt’s Houses of Worship are Offering Online Services to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19

June 2019

PASTOR BETHANY: The Influence of Life and Death

February 2019

PASTOR BETHANY: Rizpah

November 2018

Slow-Spreading ‘Signboard’ Fire Still Smoldering East of Hoopa

May 2018

PASTOR BETHANY: Embrace God as Mother

December 2017

PASTOR BETHANY: Why Did the Lord Choose Mary, and Why Does He Choose You?

November 2017

Congressman Jared Huffman Comes Out as a ‘Non-Religious Humanist’

September 2017

What’s the Story With That Place? The Underground Scientology Vault Near Petrolia

July 2016

How Religion Affects Health Care at St. Joseph Hospital: Jefferson Public Radio

March 2016

PASTOR BETHANY: ‘Me Too’

December 2015

PASTOR BETHANY: The Lemony Life

September 2015

PASTOR BETHANY: You’re Not Alone

August 2015

PASTOR BETHANY: Grace

June 2015

PASTOR BETHANY: One Week Later: Charleston

PASTOR BETHANY: Root-Bound

April 2015

PASTOR BETHANY: Secure Your Own Mask First

February 2015

PASTOR BETHANY: Lent for the Rest of Us

December 2014

PASTOR BETHANY: Mother Mary

November 2014

PASTOR BETHANY: Religion on the Fringe — Or, Give More Than Thanks

God (Resolution) Is Dead

‘In God We Trust’ Resolution Prompts Threat of Lawsuit

October 2014

PASTOR BETHANY: Messy and Clean

September 2014

Pastor Bethany: Being Anyone is Hard

August 2014

Pastor Bethany: The Apricot and the Worm

July 2014

Pastor Bethany: Why Church Matters

June 2014

Pastor Bethany: On ‘Perfect Parenting’

May 2014

Pastor Bethany: The Love of the Mysterious Divine

Pastor Bethany: Happy Mother’s Day

April 2014

Pastor Bethany: Every 15 Minutes Reality

March 2014

Pastor Bethany: Fred Phelps and Forgiveness