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God and the Pandemic: A Christian Reflection on the Coronavirus and Its Aftermath is unavailable, but you can change that!

Discover a different way of seeing and responding to the Coronavirus pandemic, an approach drawing on Scripture, Christian history, and the way of living, thinking, and praying revealed to us by Jesus. What are we supposed to think about the Coronavirus crisis? Some people think they know: “This is a sign of the End,” they say. “It’s all predicted in the book of Revelation.” Others disagree...

said that to a small group of people who were locked in because they were afraid. Sound familiar? We’ll come back to that. After all, the programmatic statement of God’s kingdom in the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5–7) isn’t simply about ‘ethics’, as people often imagine in our shrunken Western world. It’s about mission. ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit … the meek … the mourners … the peacemakers … the hungry-for-justice people’ and so on. We all too easily assume that Jesus is saying ‘try hard to be
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