Steve Glisky was my classmate at South Seattle Community College. I liked him and found him interesting, a deep thinker on the quiet side. During one of our conversations, Steve mentioned he’d been depressed, and said he’d been thinking about “croaking” himself. A week later, another classmate informed me that Steve had jumped to his death from the Aurora Bridge.

If I was king, the saga of David and Bathsheba in 2 Samuel 11-12 would be required reading. Although the story tells itself, here are the high points.

David, “Man after God’s heart”, king over Israel, model of virtue, sees Bathsheba bathing on the rooftop one evening. 
He sends for her, sleeps with her,  and impregnates her.
Her [...]