Showing posts with label pandemic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pandemic. Show all posts
Wednesday, 25 May 2022

Joy in a cursed world

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It turns out that joy is a serious business. In 2015 the John Templeton Foundation awarded over $4M to Yale Divinity School for a project en...
Friday, 15 April 2022

What’s so good about this Good Friday?

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Just as grave concerns about a global pandemic, caused by a new virus for which there wasn’t initially a test or cure, begin to recede (whet...
Tuesday, 20 July 2021

Life in the pandemic XXIX Keswick in the transition…

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Once again, for the second time in the pandemic, we have made our way to England’s beautiful Lake District, to the market town of Keswick. T...
Friday, 2 April 2021

Life in the pandemic XXII: Easter Reflections - Singing in the darkness..

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Last year at Easter we were just getting used to lockdown – working from home, one hour’s exercise a day and the rest. It made for an intere...
Sunday, 17 January 2021

Life in the Pandemic XVII: Truth, like gravity, cannot forever be denied…

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Time for the inevitable post-Christmas return to the pandemic. And while there was light at the end of the tunnel , it has dimmed somewhat. ...
Tuesday, 22 December 2020

Christmas 2020: In the pandemic………

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Twists and turns. Just a few days ago the exciting news of the roll out of COVID19 vaccinations had us all thinking that things were on the...
Saturday, 12 December 2020

Life in the Pandemic XVI: The light at the end of the tunnel

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The great sulk continues in the actual Whitehouse. The great contrast with the Bartlett Whitehouse continues (yes, I know it’s made up, but ...
Wednesday, 14 October 2020

Life in the Pandemic XIII: Living, doing and knowing……

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Here in the England’s northwest, the second wave has well and truly arrived. In Liverpool, our cases and hospitalisations are up and rising,...
Saturday, 26 September 2020

Life in the Pandemic XII: What lies ahead?

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No human being can tell the future. Lot’s of us try to guess the future, and claim that we’re making a prediction. If enough of us do that ...
Saturday, 19 September 2020

Life in the Pandemic XI: Why science can never be enough.

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In the interests of transparency, I should make clear from the outset that I think science is, without doubt, the best way of obtaining soun...
Thursday, 16 July 2020

Life in the Pandemic VIII: So many goodbyes….

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There are many folk who are grieving these days and having to say their goodbyes. While some probably knew the time was approaching when an ...
Saturday, 4 July 2020

Life in the Pandemic VII: Don’t panic, there’s still plenty of books to read…

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Frank Zappa is quoted as having said “So many books, so little time”. But of course, for a while now, many of us have had considerably more ...
Sunday, 10 May 2020

Life in the Pandemic IV: Where should we place our faith?

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There is a lot of faith about at the moment (something I noted previously ). Some of it is obvious, some of it less so. But it’s there. In...