Questioning the Shutdown

by R. R. Reno

If the shutdown continues for too long, we will lose social function. Continue Reading »

20 Mar 2020

The Cure for What Ails Us

by L. S. Dugdale

COVID-19 should change the way we think about our mortality.  Continue Reading »

20 Mar 2020

COVID-19 and the New Death Calculus

by John Waters

Just a few weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic, it is already clear that many actors are prepared to countenance the exclusion of the old and the very ill from the protection of the human family. Continue Reading »

18 Mar 2020

Creation, Fall, and Coronavirus

by C. C. Pecknold

In some ways, Christians this Lent are like Israel in Babylonian exile, bereft of land and temple. Continue Reading »

17 Mar 2020

The Time of the Virus

by Ephraim Radner

This is a time to turn to God, to reckon God’s gifts, to tend and cherish common responsibilities and the life given through birth, children, and parents.  Continue Reading »

16 Mar 2020

Bodily Curiosities

by Joseph Epstein

I am not altogether incurious, but one entity about which I have over the years felt little curiosity is my own body. Until recently, I could not have told you the function of my, or anyone else’s, pancreas, spleen, or gallbladder. I’d just as soon not have known that I have kidneys, and was . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2020

Other Plans: Journal of an Illness

by James Andrew Miller

I had spent most of Saturday, February 29, 1992, Leap Year Day, working through a stack of books and notes I was using for a major paper on Transcendentalism, due in draft at Cleveland State University in the Graduate English program. Sunday afternoon, too, was reserved for this endeavor. Sunday . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 1993