Coronavirus

April 14, “a group of LGBTQ activists stood several yards away from the Samaritan’s Purse field hospital on the East Meadow lawn and blasted city and state officials and Mount Sinai Hospital for partnering with the evangelical humanitarian relief organization treating overflow patients suffering from the coronavirus.” - RNS

“How deadly is Covid-19 compared to seasonal flu, past pandemics, or car crashes? To offer context, we have produced two charts showing coronavirus deaths along with deaths from other common causes in the past to which the disease has recently been compared.” - New Atlantis

“Much of what children consume may be entertaining, fun, and colorful…. Knowing and embracing unchanging truth dispels fear in these troubling times. This is just as true for children as it is for us.” - David Michael

“Mayor Simmons has demonstrated a level of incompetence and irresponsibility in three areas.

“I want share what Luke 13:4-5 says. Jesus here is responding to a question about why certain people died, and he refers to 18 people who were killed in a tragic accident. Why did they die—why did that accident happen? It’s the same question people are asking today… Why is this pandemic happening now, to us? Here was Jesus’ response in Luke 13…” - Ken Ham

“It is not a zombie apocalypse. My hope for you is that when this time comes to an end you will not just have survived, but you will have thrived. And your life on the other side will be better.” - Church Leaders

“As the coronavirus forces us to eat humble pie, a society that had dismissed God finds its religious conscience stirring.” - National Review

“There are reasons I think that the percentage would be much less for SBC, explained below. I don’t know if LifeWay Research does any prognostication about SBC church closures.” - SBC Voices

“People have all sorts of reasons for taking a job and their reasons could be thoroughly cynical and selfish. …But even in a heavily regulated mixed economy like our own, we’re seeing millions of people behaving in ways that can’t be explained by selfishness (not the same thing as self-interest) or greed – the common critiques.” - Acton

“…despite this uncertainty, we can make a reasonable guess about when church buildings will reopen by weighing the relevant medical, political, and psychological elements.” - TGC