Spiritual Care and COVID-19

Hospitals, spiritual care is not a luxury you can eliminate in a crisis. Now is the time you need it more than ever. And realize, too, that your chaplains are likely overwhelmed along with the rest of your staff, and they will suffer burnout, compassion fatigue, moral injury, and PTS along with them. What are…

General Conference — What We’ll Miss

The General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists has announced that its quinquennial session will be postponed a year due to COVID-19. It will be a session reduced in size in days and participants, to focus on just getting the business done. And this, they say, will be a model for the future. It makes sense, from…

Martin Luther on the Plague

Some practical wisdom from the distinguished theologian of Wittenberg. …Use medicine; take potions which can help you; fumigate house, yard, and street; shun persons and places wherever your neighbor does not need your presence or has recovered, and act like a man who wants to help put out the burning city. What else is the…