“COVID-19” Articles

We’ve become a tribal people because our environment has become one based on deception.

We have our own agents provocateur who manipulate the impressionable to turn neighbor against neighbor, sowing seeds of suspicion and division with lies and conspiracies.

Station Eleven focuses on the clarity that the pandemic’s disaster affords, and the way people re-make their sense of “home” after the damage.

Reviewing the products of 1981 and 2021 reveals our desperate search for salvation from death… and salvation from modern daily life.

Russian Doll speaks to the isolation and surreality of our pandemic moment.

Comparing 1980 and 2020 reveals how pop culture dramatizes our anxieties.

COVID-19 has become our society’s most recent real-life monster.

If Exodus voices our collective hunger for deliverance, it also calls us to work for deliverance, toward liberatory action.

COVID-19 forces us to ask, who deserves authority and how is that authority granted?

How do we live well in this ongoing (seemingly never-ending) viral age? Erin and Hannah discuss our new normal in the Growing Viral finale.

If you don’t have any sort of hope beyond death, the absurdity of everything tends to hit you hard. And then you end up doing stupid stuff, like betting the family farm on a bunch of tulips.

How can we search for goodness without minimizing the very real pain and grief of living in a pandemic? Erin and Hannah discuss our battle with discouragement in this Growing Viral conversation.

We’re accustomed to much freedom in daily life, making the government regulations feel all the more binding. Erin and Hannah discuss security and releasing control in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Fury Road offers a glimpse of coming renewal, of rebirth.

Frustration and anger are natural when your whole world is threatened. Erin and Hannah discuss blame and justice in the COVID-19 pandemic.

A lot of people have been watching Contagion recently, and many others are asking why. Is it strangely comforting? Terrifying but in a helpfully distancing way? Morbidly fascinating? The apocalyptic book of Revelation can help us understand.