Millennial writer Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig has a new article at Ethika Politika. She writes:

It is tempting, as Christ indicates, to drop off into torpor and give up on matters that seem beyond one’s control. I don’t doubt that people in the position of considering suicide feel this exact same way, but I do believe there’s value in recognizing that people considering suicide and people who don’t want them to can suffer that together.

And in Gethsemane Jesus’s example reminds us that suffering together matters, that it means something.

Read the full article here.