Five Things COVID-19 Can Teach the Churches

In response to the pandemic, there have been many write-ups concerning the appropriate precautions to be taken, the activities to be explored during lockdowns, ways to take care of the body and mind, as well as the existential lessons that we ought to learn from the COVID-19 experience. In an earlier post on this site, I explored how the pandemic has succeeded in exposing our collective vulnerability, not only in the fragility of life, the illusion of what we had thought we can control and the grave inherent depravity that we never knew was there all along. In that piece, I also … Continue reading Five Things COVID-19 Can Teach the Churches

Coronavirus and our Naked Humanity

Coronavirus, like every global crisis, has exposed our helplessness and vulnerability as human beings. It has shown the limits of what we can or cannot control. Apart from the ability to control the virus, we struggle with a lot of other things, including our faith, our greed, and even our very humanity. We see this clearly in the polarization within the faith community. When the recommendation for social distancing was made as a way to flatten the curve of the spread, the faith community had to take a tough decision. Churches were to be shut down, allowing for only private … Continue reading Coronavirus and our Naked Humanity