An uneven book offers confused insights on church life in a pandemic.
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“Such is the Breath of Kings”: Shakespeare’s Richard II and COVID Restrictions
Bad rulers thoughtlessly breathe decrees, ignorant that their subjects do not have a breath to spare.
Kuyper on Vaccines III: Receiving Vaccines
The third and final piece in a series on Abraham Kuyper’s views on vaccines, following smallpox in the 1800s
Kuyper on Vaccines II: The Role of Government
The second of three posts exploring Abraham Kuyper’s views on vaccines in the wake of a smallpox outbreak in the 1800s
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and the Paradox of Politics
A couple of weeks ago, President Biden announced that he was at last going to put the massive and seemingly unlimited powers of the federal bureaucracy to work in a direct assault on vaccine hesitancy, essentially mandating that all workers at companies of over 100...
The Ethics of Masking in an Unending Pandemic
After a brief summer of freedom, the United States is reeling under a fresh assault of coronavirus, the India-bred Delta variant having proved more than infectious enough to overtop our half-built barriers of herd immunity. In some ways, this latest wave is the most...
Christ and Caesar: A Response to John MacArthur
Last week, John MacArthur used his immense stature in the evangelical church to call Christians to civil disobedience. WE