Corona Tag Archive
The Coronavirus and ‘The Great Operation’
(10 minute read)
Rosemary Milne offers useful advice on how to remain fully human in a digital age.
What would Poirot do?
(6 minute read)
Kenson Li learns lessons for lockdown from the great fictional sleuth.
Time to make peace with nature … but how?
(7 minute read)
Richard Bauckham ponders the great challenge to creation posed by our everyday destructiveness.
When religious values help fight a virus
(5 minute read)
Hajra Rehman explains the core principles of Islam which have helped keep the pandemic under control in Muslim nations.
It’s an ill virus that blows nobody any good
(9 minute read)
Richard Bauckham looks back to a Middle Age fair to make sense of the Covid pandemic.
Healthy minds and healthy bodies
(4 minute read)
Ronnie Convery examines the practical steps we can take to keep our lives in balance, not neglecting mind or matter, as we enter a new version of “normal” after lockdown in many parts of the world.
Editorial: Don’t just survive, thrive!
There was a time when survival writing was a rather niche market. If you looked really hard, or asked the bored assistant, bookshops tended to stock a light range of boy scout-esque manuals on what to carry as emergency rations, the joys of Kendal Mint Cake and how to light a fire with sticks. More […]
Covid-19: a chance to build bridges between generations
(7 minute read)
Lisa Fraser explains how volunteering to buy groceries for an isolated elderly neighbour has changed the way she relates to older people.
Whimsy in lockdown: how black bananas can end your isolation blues
(5 minute read)
A query about wood chips took Priscila Moscoso Meiller out of confinement into meaningful contact with others.
The assault of fears and the anchor of hope
(7 minute read)
Margareth Sembiring presents a sobering analysis of what lies ahead, but reveals her own reasons for hope.
