The religious word of the year: COVIDOLOGY
Is COVID-era faith a Nehru jacket? Or a Brooks Brothers suit that simply needs a new tie? Rabbi Avraham Rappaport at a bris ceremony during the coronavirus pandemic. Courtesy photo
December 29, 2020
Because it is what we have all been talking about since the middle of March.
How do we make meaning out of what has happened?
COVID is religious because it is about the ultimate meaning of life. How many of us, thinking about our own fragility and mortality, and those of our loved ones, began the painful and necessary process of re-assessing our lives, and what is important in those lives? How many of us intoned the words of the great theologian, Peggy Lee, and sang: “Is that all there is?”
As he was rushing through an airport, my late minister friend Dr. James W. Moore, said that he saw a young man wearing a T-shirt. Written across the front of
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