(This article is guest-written by my wife, Gail Van Norman, a physician and professor of clinical medical ethics at the University of Washington in Seattle.) I will never forget the day I was called to our trauma center ER to intubate “Bobby.” The pager exploded in alarm: 1-01-1. One...

“I’m tired of death by handgun and I will fight to make certain that handguns are banned in the United States. We have seen too many innocent people die. I want to live in a country where people are safe, where we don’t live in the constant threat of violence by guns.” I clearly...

This summer a U.S. presidential candidate who’d led the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City flew to London and gamely critiqued the U.K.’s preparations for their Summer Olympics. “It’s hard to tell just how it will turn out,” he told the British press. Soon newspapers in London were...

I’ve never had a bad encounter with the Seattle Police Department. In fact, last year local police officers arrested a stalker who was harassing me, and this month I worked with the SPD to track down a shoplifter. Officers have been cordial, helpful, prompt and friendly. But it’s...

I’m not exactly sure why I hoped that General Conference would have a change of heart this year and, after ten times getting it wrong, finally come around to the Jesus side on the issue of homosexuality in the church. After all, every four years since 1972 without exception we’ve...

Rev. David E. Blaine and his wife Catharine arrived in the end of November, 1853, and officiated at the first Seattle Methodist Episocopal Church service on December 4, 1853 in the log cabin of Guthrie Latimer. Founding members were: Catharine Blaine, Arthur and Mary Denny, and John Nagle....