COVID-19

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Raking Hope

By Emily Ruth Mace | October 30, 2020

This simple act of caring for my home in order to prepare for winter feels like an absurd act of hope.

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Sometimes You Want to Go

By Pamela Newton | September 15, 2020

If only we could find a way to live together.

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Prophetic Confinement

By Rosanne Liebermann | May 27, 2020

“Go, be confined inside your house!” Pandemic parallels stretch back as far as the sixth century BCE, when even the prophets Ezekiel and Jeremiah were restricted to their homes during their ministry.

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A New Ramadan

By Kirsten Hemmy | May 23, 2020

This year’s Ramadan promised to be different before it started.

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Dispatches from Isolation, Vol. 1

By Andrew Johnson | April 20, 2020

Abandon most of your plans, except for the quiet house in the Blue Ridge Mountains, a promise of isolation that you desired before it was mandated.

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Camus’ The Plague: Coronavirus Quotes

By Emily Ruth Mace | April 6, 2020

Do all you can to fight plague where you find it, and don’t forget to love: a selection of some of the most relevant quotes from Camus’ The Plague for a time of coronavirus.

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It’s the End and Nothing Feels Fine

By Kelly J. Baker | April 1, 2020

I don’t use the word “apocalypse” or “apocalyptic” lightly. I’m a scholar of bad endings. And the pandemic that we face right now feels like it could be a very bad ending.

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The Times We’re Living In

By Emily Ruth Mace | March 20, 2020

Trying times are liminal times; they’re not meant to be a new normal. When we’re in one, we only know what came before and what we’re facing; we cannot know, yet, what comes next.