COMMENT: Hello Martin
May 8th seemed to be a turning point and from what I have read from your readers many things happened. I found this quite strange don’t know if it is significant but in Scotland we had the elections on 6 May. Usually, what happens are the votes are counted throughout the night. This did not happen due to covd!!! Votes were counted on the 7 may and results declared 8 may. Scottish National party won. Very strange things going on.
All the best
COMMENT: Dear Martin,
I am an avid reader of your blog, and like so many of your followers I have been waiting with excitement for May 8th. But, as many times before, this time too it seems that it is more a turning point in trend than a single historical event. The question we all ask ourselves is, therefore, which events will turn out to have been significant and which were not. And perhaps even more decisively, what trend were they an expression of?
In March, the COVID-19 pandemic put a stop to that.
Though it was jarring for some members, Charles and April Hale of Akron and their daughter, Ciara, got right to work, turning to technology, writing letters and making phone calls. They embraced the chance to be creative with their faith. Because it s such a big part of our lives, when we couldn t go to anyone s door, we jumped right in figuring out how we can (contact) people, April Hale said. It was exciting and a little nervous, but for our family, it was a nice transition.
For people of faith everywhere, requiring them to suddenly stop taking part in what some cases are lifelong traditions and practices, has been disorienting; even traumatic. It has demanded creativity and a dose of resiliency, particularly for the Jehovah s Witnesses, for whom face-to-face interaction is a tenet of the faith.