I recently read this, “Lock-down lingo" - are you fully conversant with the new terminology? Coronacoaster: The ups and downs of your mood during the pandemic. You’re loving lockdown one minute but suddenly facing tears and anxiety the next. It’s “an emotional coronacoaster”. Coronadose: An overdose of bad news from consuming too much media during a time of crisis. Note: this can result in a panic-demic. I’m also adding Coronality: The liminal space between what was and what

Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit” (Jn. 20: 21-22, ESV). In 1933, in Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s inaugural speech that occurred in the great depths of the Great Depression, he spoke these immortal words: “So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror whi

“Give us day by day our daily bread” (Lk. 11:3, NKJV). One day while Jesus was praying, His disciples stood by waiting for Him to finish His time of communion with God the Father. Upon His completion, one of His disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray as John the Baptist had taught his disciples to pray. In Luke’s account of Jesus’ didactical session with His disciples on the matter of approaching God the Father in prayer, Jesus emphasizes three major points: (1) The ho

Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. ... The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still" (Exo. 14:13a,14). You couldn’t really blame them. They weren’t soldiers … they were just laborers who had known nothing but bondage and servitude. And now the Egyptian army was bearing down on them with every intention of wiping them all out … not just the men who might take up arms, but all of th