Category: ECLAS AND COVID-19
As we find ourselves navigating what feels like a very long pandemic, it’s helpful to remember that what feels completely unprecedented to us (in the most over-used phrase of the year), very much has a...
Coronavirus brings us face to face with our limitations: uncertainty, weakness, and death. This is a deeply painful place to be, but it can be hopeful as well.
When emotions run high, it is important to untangle what is actually happening when we use words or phrases with whose meaning we think we are familiar.
The pandemic and the resulting lockdowns and travel restrictions have compelled us all to change our behaviour, and quickly.
We are at the outer limits of our current wisdom. As the church, we must dig deeper.
The UK government at the onset of the Covid-19 crisis warned that “the virus does not discriminate”, but it quickly became apparent that that wasn’t strictly true.
How are we to produce good narratives which speak into the wider world and which are both scientifically and theologically well-informed?
Theology excels at asking about the impact of stories on our lives and, often more important, the impact of our stories on the lives of others.