Theology That Bites Back
Lest Anyone Take Umbrage at the Title: I should say at the outset that I am taking care to sharply distinguish two crises, as I have done from the very beginning of this unraveling mess. To those exhausted doctors and nurses who are in the front lines treating those with COVID-19, to those researchers who …
Sermon Video Introduction: In a recent press conference, the president said that his desire was to have our country emerge from this crisis in a matter of weeks, not months, and that it was his ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUX5j9ESSVM Q. I understand what you say about God being all-powerful and sovereign, even in disasters like this. But why am I not reassured? As we learn how ...
Introduction: The coronavirus scare has had a narrative arc. There were the initial troubling reports out of China. Then there was time when the alarm was sounded on the basis of the kind of sensational modeling that has a genius for the limelight. Battle was joined, as this was clearly the moral equivalent of war. …
Q. In uncertain times like this, what is the first thing we as Christians should remember? The very first thing to remember in unsettled times like this is that God is in control. God is sovereign over all things, and He is sovereign in this particular circumstance. He is the God of galaxies and He …
Introduction: I speak, of course, in metaphors. Yesterday the prime minister of India put a billion people, more or less, into lock down. He did this because there was a "spike" in cases -- ...
Introduction: I can only imagine what kind of pressure the White House is currently getting, and when the imagination gets going, I think I can describe for you what kind of doomsday scenarios are being played out for them and run by them, with graphs, pie charts, oscillating models on computer screens, and all the …
