Thomas Mann takes us to the strange beauty of a misty Venice and the devastation brought on by a cholera epidemic in 1911.

Nothing can compare to the security of our relationship with him and the peace that he puts in our hearts.

Some will look back on lockdown with a deep sense of regret at having missed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to grow closer to God.

The more we complain, the more we are showing others how little we depend on God.

May this crisis make you ponder life and death, and what is truly valuable.

The Bible shows us that one of the characteristics of God's nature is kindness.

The question “Do you believe in God” has been understood in three different ways since antiquity:

Our point of reference has to remain the Lord and not coronavirus. It’s necessary to affirm God’s control over the whole situation and the need to repent before Him.

God knows what is coming; He always has, and we never have. Maybe this can stir a greater humility in us all, even when restrictions ease.

The coronavirus crisis in Europe is “driving a public debate about privacy, ethics and public health, and what measures are appropriate (or not) to protect it”, says Patricia Shaw of the Homo Responsibilis Initiative.

We should be able to transform the time of waiting into a time of hope and patience. Then we will discover that God can change our adversities into opportunities.

Jonathan Ebsworth of the TechHuman initiative warns that some technologies being used in Europe are “approaching a level of quasi-omniscience that no human enterprise ought to have”.

Jealousy and suspicion in marriages needs to be acknowledged, brought into the open and brought to resolution.

We are “condemned” to staying at home with our partner, our children or just ourselves.

The New Testament refers to hyssop in relation to the sacrifice of Christ on the cross

Let us listen carefully, think deeply, change appropriately to the messages from the media and speak relevantly through the media into our society.

The cinema shows many examples of viruses that affect humans, producing devastating epidemics that remind us of our fragility and vulnerability.

The coronavirus is taking many of our grandpas and grandmas. Most are on their own, isolated in hospitals, and we do not have the chance of giving them one last embrace.

A survey shows that women have more existential questions than men, while Protestants and Catholics are the ones who think more about the meaning of life.

“We need to realise that behind the trends, ideologies and mindsets that we face, there are spiritual realities”, says the general secretary of the Swedish Evangelical Alliance.

I lead a congregation in Rome that thrives on handshakes, greet kisses, and physical contact. This winter, the coronavirus has taught Italians the cautions of distance and isolation.

Spirituality is not given its name because it is connected to the soul or the spiritual part of humanity, but because it comes from the Spirit of God. 

“Religious freedom, must include recognition of the right to protect life and to advocate against its termination, both in words and deeds”, the WEA says at the UN Human Rights Council.

Is there a way for us to talk about Christian eschatology that both acknowledges brokenness and affirms goodness?

Holiness means to consistently have clean behaviour, a clean life.