Quarantine

While quarantined with my family during the COVID-19 pandemic, the following five lessons with international affairs applications have come into focus.

A theologian’s task in time of plague is to show the light and give people hope. In recent years, many of us trained as theologians have traded our office for that of the pundit and scold. That we have so little worthwhile to say now, in this unprecedented time of fear and uncertainty, is yet one more sign of judgment.