Tag Archives: COVID-19

School News (and It’s Not Good)

  It’s simple.  Students are falling behind.   Renaissance, an organization known for preK-12 education technology, evaluated 5 million students from all 50 states to assess the impact of COVID-19.  They compared student achievement from Fall 2019 to Fall 202o. … Continue reading

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Educating the Nation

There’s already a big gap between America’s best and worst schools. COVID restrictions may make the educational divide even bigger. Harvard’s Professor Joseph Allen puts it this way:   “Right now, occasionally we’ll see a case of COVID in a … Continue reading

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Perspective on Fear

  Which do you worry more about: your body or your soul?     Matthew 10:28 (VOICE) Don’t fear those who aim to kill just the body but are unable to touch the soul. The One to fear is He who … Continue reading

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Perspective on Risk

  Should the kids isolate and thus protect their elders? Should the elders suck it up and let the kids get back to their normal lives?   Whose risk matters most? Ephesians 6:2-4 (VOICE) This is the first commandment onto … Continue reading

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Perspective on the End of Life

  John 10:10 (ESV) The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.   US COVID deaths this year: almost 230,000 US abortions in a year: more than … Continue reading

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What Counts?

  I see daily updates to the COVID-19 death count. Are these counts less important?     Suicides Homicides Abortions Every life counts. Every life is someone’s child. Everyone is a child of God. God knows what I don’t know.  … Continue reading

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A Sheltered View of the Pandemic

I see the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of my own country. An recent update from World Challenge about Liberia shifted my sheltered perspective.   “. . . the country simply doesn’t have the means for a prolonged battle with … Continue reading

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Shelter from COVID-19’s Spiritual Implications

  Life in Abundance ministers in 56 disadvantaged communities in 14 African and Caribbean countries.  COVID-19 has escalated the need:   “We recognize the severity of this for the urban and rural poor we walk with, many of whom live … Continue reading

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Next Up: Sheltering Vulnerable Children

  We’re anxious to get things back to normal.  For some kids, normal is forever gone. This from Andrew Morley, President and CEO of World Vision International:   “We are wrong if we think this is not a children’s disease. … Continue reading

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Safe from Pan[dem]ic

  COVID-19 has not been officially declared a pandemic. Is it time to panic? According to Science News:   “The last time that the WHO declared a pandemic was in 2009, for a then-novel H1N1 strain of influenza, which some … Continue reading

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