Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic, many church leaders have disagreed with governing authorities and health advisors about mandated lockdown procedures. More than a few pastors have been arrested for resisting lockdown, and many health experts and officials have opposed initiatives to reopen churches. What’s the problem? Numerous church leaders have disagreed with each other and with civic […]
Dr. Douglas Heimburger: An Interview on Faith, Health, and Healthcare during the Pandemic
Transcribed and edited by Grace Liu, Andrew Warren, & Yuhang Zhang What can the COVID-19 pandemic teach us about health and healthcare? What deeper realities have been uncovered about the nature of suffering and true flourishing? How can the Christian worldview offer insight and hope in this current public health crisis? We recently spoke with […]
What We Can Learn from Christian Responses to Past Outbreaks
The word “unprecedented” has been thrown around so frequently that it is easy to think the world has never experienced disease before. However, historical outbreaks and the response of contemporary church leaders provide a remarkable precedent for us to follow. From third century plagues of the Roman Empire to the recent Ebola outbreak, spiritual leaders […]
Gratitude in the Face of Suffering
The outbreak of the coronavirus is likely the most life-altering event most of us can remember. We are generally too young to remember 9/11, and the 2008 financial crisis did not affect daily life to this extreme. It has single-handedly brought the seemingly imperturbable flow of daily life to a grinding halt. Such an event […]
Saturday
Life is on pause, while death keeps churning. We’ve stowed normalcy away, folding it up and tucking it into the closet for the summer, itching to bring it back out again come fall. We crave its soft boring linens, that comforting frequency of repetition and familiarity, that we can sink into after a long day. […]
Where is God in the Midst of the Coronavirus?
Like many of you, I was horrified when I saw this headline in The New York Times last week: “When You Die of the Coronavirus, You Die Alone.” Although the newspaper has since changed the headline – it now reads “I’m on the Front Lines. I Have No Plan for This” to undoubtedly soften the […]