Yesterday, the World Health Organization announced that COVID-19 (formerly known as the novel coronavirus) is officially a global pandemic. What does (or should) this mean for those of us in Eucharistic faith traditions like Orthodoxy, for whom receiving Communion (with our actual, microorganism-harboring mouths) is central to the lived reality of faith and fellowship? Since the Church isā¦
So, the head cold that has been looming on the horizon lo these several weeks seems to be blossoming with a vengeance in my sinuses. It’s less the cold that’s bothering me and more the resultant fatigue. I’ve been trying to figure out how to scrap together some semblance of a blog post in this state when Iā¦
When my friend Elissaās daughter was still a baby, she had to undergo a risky liver transplant. In the midst of a somewhat less traumatic illness (a cold), I called up Elissa to talk with her about the way time seems to slow down when we (or a loved one) is sick. This is a perfect episode forā¦
For the next week or so, the theme around here at Time Eternal is time and illness. I’ll soon be posting a podcast episode in which I talk with my friend, Elissa Bjeletich, about her experience waiting for her daughter to receive a liver transplant.Ā In the meantime, however, I had the opportunity to talk with Kevin Allen,ā¦